Cars lined Ochsner Blvd. as 80 local cancer patients and their families recently picked up Thanksgiving-in-a-box at St. Tammany Cancer Center, a campus of Ochsner Medical Center.
This group effort by local foundations, businesses, and faith groups included turkey, staples, St. Joseph Abbey bread, and a $50 gift card thanks to In Jesus’ Name Foundation, Saint Joseph Abbey, St. Tammany Hospital Foundation, Bill Hood Chevrolet, Rouses Markets, and Gallagher Insurance.
“We are so grateful to local philanthropists Jim and Mary Lee, as well as all the generous local groups that made today possible,” Jack Khashou, administrator of St. Tammany Cancer Center, a campus of Ochsner Medical Center, said. “Our new center is a truly integrative approach to cancer care, and nothing personifies that new discipline better than our experience today. We’re out here, feeding bellies and spirits at the same time. My staff is so uplifted, positively giddy, getting to give these generous boxes to their patients. And our patients and their families drive away happy with the groceries loaded right in their car to head home and relax for the holiday week.”