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Early identification, staging, and diagnosis of lung cancer is critical to improving patient outcomes. However, current diagnostic options are limited in accuracy, safety, and invasiveness—only 15 percent of patients with lung cancer are diagnosed at an early stage. Read how Fox Chase Cancer Center has implemented new flexible robotic endoscopic technology to diagnose hard-to-reach lung nodules with …
Advanced practice providers entering the oncology workforce need more than graduation from an advanced practice program; formal training is necessary. Norton Healthcare began a continuous QI initiative to enhance existing orientation processes for closing this practice gap.
Because of its growing retirement-age population and its unique location on a barrier island, The Outer Banks Hospital saw patients with lung cancer presenting at too late a stage for curative treatment. Learn how the hospital created an LDCT program and partnered with local providers and community cancer centers to identify patients with lung cancer at an earlier stage.
Re-structuring care delivery to be more patient centered is among the many demands the U.S. healthcare system is striving to meet. The imperative to center care around engaged patients is recognized by regulators, health systems, hospitals, professional societies, providers, payers, and patients and families—and it is a central component of value-based care. Of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement …
Do the following statements sound familiar? Oncology is the most rapidly changing specialty in healthcare. We are in the midst of unprecedented change and turbulence in the U.S. healthcare system. Burnout is a critical issue in healthcare, and it’s especially worrisome in oncology where workforce shortages—and increased demand for services—are anticipated. Feeling stressed? If you attended the ACCC …
The ongoing balancing act of staffing and retention is one of the most challenging issues in healthcare today. In specialty areas such as oncology, staffing presents an even more difficult challenge. Finding qualified individuals with the right experience to fill open positions can be a taxing, time-consuming task.
Though the concept of patient navigation is not new, the use of lay navigation teams across the continuum of a cancer journey is a novel approach to care coordination. Integrating lay navigators into the healthcare team empowers the clinical team to work at a higher level within the scope of their training.
In 2016 Virtua Cancer Program saw approximately 2,400 analytic cases across three ncampuses. Our two full-time (FTE) social workers were challenged to meet this high patient demand, and it soon became clear that improvements were needed
When SwedishAmerican Regional Cancer Center found itself unable to quantify performance in inpatient oncology, it saw an opportunity to break down barriers in communication and education between the inpatient and outpatient setting.
The role of the geriatric oncology ambulatory care clinic is important to the care of the older person in that it assembles a multidisciplinary team of oncology professionals specialized in aging and who work together to conduct comprehensive geriatric assessment and develop a cancer management plan.
Over the last months, my ACCCBuzz blog posts have covered navigation documentation tools, orientation needs, patient education, and the value navigators bring to a cancer program. Navigators support patient-centered, coordinated, streamlined access to care. But what about the support navigators themselves need in order to provide the best possible care for the patients and their families while juggling …
2017 ACCC Innovator Award winner Mitchell Cancer Institute developed a universal oncology nurse navigation acuity tool that measures 11 factors directly impacting the need for and level of navigation services, including staging and diagnosis, co-morbidities, hospitalizations, and family support.
The Susan P. Wheatlake Regional Cancer Center lacked the infrastructure to fund survivorship and navigation software, but still needed to assess how to meet needs, procure service affiliations, and facilitate access to services in a fiscally responsible manner.
While nurse practitioners (NPs) working within the specialty field of oncology are expected to assume the cancer care provider role, some may come with limited cancer experience and knowledge. The web-based education resource discussed in this article can help ensure that these providers have a basic level of knowledge to support safe, quality cancer care.
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are integral members of the multidisciplinary cancer team that provide care for this chronic patient population.
As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes transformative change, cancer programs will require a multifaceted administrative leader to ensure that the program thrives and maintains an acceptable ROI on the significant investments required to deliver quality patient-centered care.
The nurse practitioner (NP) and clinical nurse specialist (CNS) are the advanced practice nurses (APNs) primarily working in the field of oncology.
Stressed by nurse staffing shortages? Learn how 2017 ACCC Innovator Award winner Loma Linda University Cancer Center tackled this challenge. One of the most challenging issues in healthcare is the ongoing balancing act of staffing and retention. For specialty areas, such as oncology, staffing presents an even more difficult challenge. Finding those perfectly qualified individuals with all the right …
This article describes the experience of one NCI-designated Cancer Center that has received extensive philanthropic funds to develop supportive care services for cancer patients.
Many community cancer programs do not have the infrastructure, institutional resources, or qualified personnel to carry out the myriad tasks involved in accruing and maintaining patients on cancer clinical trials.
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