Member Content: News and Tools You Can Use

ACCC's Cancer Nutrition Services: A Practical Guide for Cancer Programs pulls together practical strategies, replicable models of nutrition programs underway at ACCC member programs, and tools for developing or enhancing your cancer program's nutrition services. Available in print and online.

Over the past year a series of articles in Oncology Issues highlighted the experiences of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) sites in meeting the program’s goals. Now the article series is available online: The NCCCP—Enhancing Access, Improving Quality of Care, and Expanding Research in the Community Setting.

ACCC's highly popular resource. Link directly to patient assistance programs and the forms necessary to enroll your patients today!

Only ACCC members have access to final reports from ACCC's educational programs.

• Transitions Between Care Settings. This landmark report examines the issue of care transition between the hospital cancer program and physician group practices.
• Treating Small-Population Cancers in the Community Setting. Most effective practices in the care of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
• Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines in Community Cancer Centers. ACCC finds solutions to inconsistencies in CPG usage and analyzes differences within institutions and across disciplines.

Read current and archived issues of articles on innovative strategies, model programs, and state-of-the-art practices and technologies. For our library of resources and articles by topics, visit MyNetwork, and type in key words, such as breast care center, EMR, or staffing.

• Read current issue.
• Browse archived Oncology Issues.

• Cancer Nutrition Services: A Practical Guide for Cancer Programs (PDF)
• Cancer Nutrition Services: A Practical Guide for Cancer Programs (online)
• 2012 Cancer Care Trends in Community Cancer Centers
• 2010 Cancer Care Trends in Community Cancer Centers
• 2009 Cancer Care Trends in Community Cancer Centers
• Cancer Program Administrator 2011
• Pharmacy Survey

ACCC members receive exclusive access to in-depth analyses of proposed and final Medicare rules, and new CMS initiatives.

• Analysis of Final 2012 HOPPS Rule
• Analysis of Final 2012 Physician Fee Schedule
• Listen to recording of conference call (MP3) about the final 2012 rules
• Final 2012 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Rule

Most members-only content is available on MyNetwork, an online community that allows members to share information and provides an on-going forum for discussion on important topics such as reimbursement issues, managing your cancer center or oncology practice, new technology purchase and implementation, and other professional concerns. ACCCExchange houses libraries of information and educational projects, as well as Position Descriptions.