For the second time in recent years, Ochsner Medical Center has received a $20 million donation from Tom and Gayle Benson for cancer treatment and research.
The original donation helped to build the Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center, which opened in 2010 on Ochsner’s main Jefferson Highway campus.
The new gift by the Saints and Pelicans owner and his wife, announced Tuesday, will fund expansions to oncology clinics on five floors, including the addition of more than 50 personal and semiprivate chemotherapy infusion stations. The donation also will help launch a clinical research program that will conduct trials on new anti-cancer drugs, agents and treatments.