Expert Cancer Care
Is Close to Home

Ochsner Health is proud to be one of only seven partners of MD Anderson Cancer Center®. It joins a collaborative network dedicated to advancing
MD Anderson’s mission to end cancer.

Spanning seven locations across Greater New Orleans, St. Tammany Parish and Baton Rouge, Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center is a full clinical and operational integration, serving patients with the same protocols, practice standards and customized treatment plans available at MD Anderson, along with expanded access to research and clinical trials. Refer your patients to Ochsner MD Anderson for advanced, comprehensive care.

Ochsner Health is proud to be one of only seven partners of MD Anderson Cancer Center®. It joins a collaborative network dedicated to advancing
MD Anderson’s mission to end cancer.

Spanning seven locations across Greater New Orleans, St. Tammany Parish and Baton Rouge, Ochsner
MD Anderson Cancer Center is a full clinical and operational integration, serving patients with the same protocols, practice standards and customized treatment plans available at MD Anderson, along with expanded access to research and clinical trials. Refer your patients to Ochsner
MD Anderson for advanced, comprehensive care.

Expert
Cancer Care
Is Close to Home

Why refer into Ochsner
MD Anderson Cancer Center?

  • One medical record to seamlessly coordinate your patients’ care across any location
  • Multidisciplinary tumor boards
  • Dedicated RN Navigators for each tumor specific multidisciplinary care team
  • Access to Ochsner and select MD Anderson early and late phase clinical trials
  • Integrative oncology services – patient wellness, nutrition, palliative support and more
  • Chemo companion – remotely monitor your patients’ vital signs throughout their therapy
  • Flexible care options – virtual consults and virtual visits available to all patients
  • One medical record to seamlessly coordinate your patients’ care across any location
  • Multidisciplinary tumor boards
  • Dedicated RN Navigators for each tumor specific multidisciplinary care team
  • Access to Ochsner and select
    MD Anderson early and late phase clinical trials
  • Integrative oncology services – patient wellness, nutrition, palliative support and more
  • Chemo companion – remotely monitor your patients’ vital signs throughout their therapy
  • Flexible care options – virtual consults and virtual visits available to all patients

Expert Care in Seven Locations

Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center
1515 River Road
New Orleans, LA 70121

Ochsner’s partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center enhances our commitment to provide expert care for our region in seven locations across New Orleans, St. Tammany Parish and Baton Rouge.

St. Tammany Cancer Center -
A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center
900 Ochsner Blvd.
Covington, LA 70433

Ochsner Medical Complex - The Grove
10310 The Grove Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70836

Ochsner Baptist
2700 Napoleon Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70115

Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank Campus
2500 Belle Chasse Highway
Gretna, LA 70056

Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner
200 West Esplanade Ave.
Kenner, LA 70065

Ochsner Cancer Center - Baton Rouge
17050 Medical Center Drive
1st Floor
Baton Rouge, LA 70816

Advanced Specialty Care for Your Patients’ Needs

  • Bone cancer
  • Brain cancer
  • Breast cancer
  • Cervical cancer
  • Colon cancer
  • Head and neck cancer
  • Hematology
  • Leukemia and lymphoma
  • Liver cancer
  • Lung cancer
  • Men’s cancer
  • Neuroendocrine tumors
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Prostate cancer
  • Women’s cancer

About the Partnership

Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center represents a full clinical and operational integration in the delivery of cancer care, which includes participation in select clinical trials along with direct access to MD Anderson physicians and research teams.

Meet the Team

Our teams of expert clinical professionals at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center provide comprehensive, holistic care to patients. In addition to our multidisciplinary team of surgical, medical and radiation oncologists, our nurses and support specialists offer services to treat the whole person.

Find an Ochsner MD Anderson Physician

What is MD Anderson Cancer Network®?

  • MD Anderson Cancer Network® advances
    MD Anderson’s mission of eliminating cancer by collaborating with local hospitals and health systems to improve the quality and accessibility of cancer care and research in the communities they serve.
  • MD Anderson is partnered with just seven health systems to fully integrate their clinical cancer care and research operations, mirroring how they deliver cancer care, enabling partners to provide multidisciplinary, subspecialized patient care, quality standardization, and expanded access to clinical trials.
  • Ochsner MD Anderson physicians will have the opportunity to apply for MD Anderson Cancer Network’s Adjunct Program. These physician appointments allow Ochsner MD Anderson doctors to become honorary members of
    MD Anderson faculty and provide for significant clinical, academic and educational contributions to the partner program.
  • MD Anderson Cancer Network® advances MD Anderson’s mission of eliminating cancer by collaborating with local hospitals and health systems to improve the quality and accessibility of cancer care and research in the communities they serve.
  • MD Anderson is partnered with just seven health systems to fully integrate their clinical cancer care and research operations, mirroring how they deliver cancer care, enabling partners to provide multidisciplinary, subspecialized patient care, quality standardization, and expanded access to clinical trials.
  • Ochsner MD Anderson physicians will have the opportunity to apply for
    MD Anderson Cancer Network’s Adjunct Program. These physician appointments allow Ochsner
    MD Anderson doctors to become honorary members of
    MD Anderson faculty and provide for significant clinical, academic and educational contributions to the partner program.

Refer a Patient
for Cancer Treatment

Help your patients access enhanced cancer care. To make an outpatient referral, call Ochsner Clinic Concierge at 855-312-4190 or fax 504-842-8416.

Call: 855-312-4190

Fax: 504-842-8416

Refer a Patient
for a Clinical Trial

Eligible patients have access to select clinical trials. To refer a patient for a clinical trial,
email pctp@ochsner.org.

Email pctp@ochsner.org

Is Ochsner now owned by MD Anderson?

  • No. Ochsner is now a partner of MD Anderson. MD Anderson does not own any part of Ochsner Health or its cancer services. Additionally, all cancer physicians, nurses and staff will continue to be employed by Ochsner.
  • No. Ochsner is now a partner of
    MD Anderson. MD Anderson does not own any part of Ochsner Health or its cancer services. Additionally, all cancer physicians, nurses and staff will continue to be employed by Ochsner.

Does this partnership include pediatric cancer care?

  • Currently, the partnership with MD Anderson focuses only on adult cancer care at the locations listed above.
  • Currently, the partnership with
    MD Anderson focuses only on adult cancer care at the locations listed above.

Are Ochsner cancer physicians changing the way they practice to follow MD Anderson protocols and standards?

  • As part of the enhanced level of cancer care Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center will offer, patients can have confidence they are receiving care mirroring the same protocols and practice standards at MD Anderson, one of the world’s largest and most respected cancer centers.
  • As such, we will implement some new clinical pathways, algorithms, and guidelines in our cancer program so that our methods align. Many of these are already in practice.
  • No matter which Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center location you choose to refer your patients’ care, you can be certain their cancer will be treated the same way as if they went to MD Anderson in Houston – close to home.
  • As part of the enhanced level of cancer care Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center will offer, patients can have confidence they are receiving care mirroring the same protocols and practice standards at
    MD Anderson, one of the world’s largest and most respected cancer centers.
  • As such, we will implement some new clinical pathways, algorithms, and guidelines in our cancer program so that our methods align. Many of these are already in practice.
  • No matter which Ochsner
    MD Anderson Cancer Center location you choose to refer your patients’ care, you can be certain their cancer will be treated the same way as if they went to MD Anderson in Houston – close to home.

What happens to the cancer sites that are not part of the partnership?

  • The Ochsner Cancer Institute encompasses comprehensive cancer care available to patients across Ochsner Health.
  • At every location, patients can expect to receive the top-level clinical care they expect from Ochsner in the largest clinical trials network in Louisiana and Mississippi.