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DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS, Tenn. (FOX13) - It's been 20 years since former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Back then she was First Lady.

On Thursday she was at the Downtown Memphis hospital to help dedicate and open a new $200 million research, education and collaboration center.

This new facility will allow doctors and researchers from St. Jude and worldwide to share knowledge about treatments and cures for childhood cancer.

The Marlo Thomas Center for Global Education and Collaboration will also host a college graduate and post-doctoral fellow program to be a "degree-gaining institute." The facility is already in use - meetings were being held Thursday. In the last 20 years since Clinton visited st. Jude, the hospital's CEO says its doctors have discovered how to tailor medullablastoma therapies, started a genome project to understand pediatric cancers and established a life study program. This center will allow doctors worldwide to share and further cancer research.

"This is what healthcare should look like patients before profits, collaboration before competition, and that is particularly healthcare that every single child deserves," the former secretary of state said.

It was decided that the center would be named after Marlo Thomas because of her efforts there as a "proud beggar" for the st. Jude children. She'll receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom Nov. 24 for her advocacy work supporting the hospital.

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Hillary Clinton To Visit St. Jude Hospital