- 2025: The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center at Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans earned reaccreditation from the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI). This three-year accreditation certifies that Ochsner’s oncology practices meet the highest quality standards for cancer care, along with each of the initiative’s evidenced-based core standards in chemotherapy treatment and patient care. This ASCO reaccreditation illustrates the delivery of the best, most comprehensive care to patients.
- 2023: The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center at Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans earned reaccreditation from the American College of Radiology's (ACR) Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation. This three-year certification guarantees the cancer center meets specific practice guidelines for radiation oncology, staff qualifications and training, high-level equipment standards and quality improvement programs.
About The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center
Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center at The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center brings an enhanced level of comprehensive cancer care to our patients.
Ochsner Health and MD Anderson Cancer Center are clinically integrated to advance care even further, right here in Louisiana. With a shared mission of ending cancer, we are providing cancer treatments that are among the most advanced in the nation.
With a holistic, patient-centric approach, Ochsner MD Anderson’s expert team provides comprehensive care to patients. Our multidisciplinary team of doctors, clinicians and support specialists offer services to treat the entire person.
Support professionals include nutritionists, nurse navigators, social workers, physical therapists, acupuncturists, and others.
We offer groundbreaking research and innovative therapies, including access to select clinical trials available to eligible patients.
Key features at The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center
The care and programs offered at The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center address the social, physical and emotional impacts of cancer treatment.
Our patients benefit from a collaborative approach to cancer care by a highly skilled team of medical oncologists, radiation and surgical oncologists, oncology nurses and social workers.
We offer:
- Center for Innovative Cancer Therapies Program: The only program dedicated to bringing early phase clinical trials to the Gulf South. Ochsner also is a member of the Louisiana Cancer Consortium.
- Integrative oncology services: We offer programs designed to be used together with traditional medical treatment to boost quality of life to patients throughout their cancer journey. Patients have access to a meditation space, and services including physical therapy, yoga, acupuncture and a gym.
- Private and semi-private patient chemo infusion stations against the beautiful, relaxing backdrop of the Mississippi River.
- Dedicated infusion and clinic spaces for bone marrow transplant patients.
- Lieselotte Tansey Breast Center: Located inside The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center to further integrate the multidisciplinary treatment approach.
- Ochsner Health O Bar: A retail experience offering the latest in interactive health technology to help patients seamlessly manage health and wellness.
- The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center also has a hematology oncology clinic, a chemotherapy infusion clinic, an area for radiation oncology and a prostate center. A multidisciplinary clinic in the building gives patients access to specialists and sub-specialists trained to meet the challenges presented by cancers.
