In 2007, East Jefferson General Hospital became the first hospital in our region to become a certified member of MD Anderson Cancer Network.
With that, our certified cancer fighting doctors gain access to treatment pathways and protocols developed and used at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, one of the world’s most respected centers devoted exclusively to cancer care, research, education and prevention. Our relationship with MD Anderson gives our patients the very best of what we do locally combined with the very latest treatments developed by the nation’s leading cancer fighting center. Patients throughout and well beyond the Greater New Orleans area have access to great cancer care without having to leave our region for treatment.
We worked hard at earning this distinction for one reason; we believe, as does MD Anderson, that you benefit greatly in your fight against cancer if you can receive the highest levels of care without having to leave your friends, family, job and support systems. To allow our patients to remain home, yet not suffer quality of care is the ultimate goal of this relationship.
Becoming, and maintaining our status as a member of the cancer network means we must continuously demonstrate that we are a leader in cancer diagnostics, outcomes, support and comprehensive cancer care. To our patients, it means we have a level of resources that no other oncology department in our region can match. It is not an exaggeration to claim that our status as a member of the MD Anderson Cancer Network has raised the bar for cancer care throughout Southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Through this relationship, EJGH is playing a direct role in MD Anderson Cancer Center’s “Moon-Shot Goal” of eradicating three types of cancer in the next decade. We have joined forces with them because we believe in this goal and we know our efforts are assisting in this goal becoming a reality.
