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A supportive care option to prevent hair loss for women—and men—undergoing chemotherapy.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated risks for patients with cancer, all Life with Cancer programming was cancelled on Mar. 12, 2020. Staff, struggling with their own anxiety over personal safety, quickly went into action on how best to continue to meet the psychological and educational needs of patients and families.
Cancer programs are facing multiple challenges related to treating patients in a COVID-19 environment. Cancer programs need to deploy systems and processes to help navigate these patients into the healthcare system and to work through the backlog of new patients with cancer as quickly as possible within existing resources.
12 accc-cancer.org | November–December 2020 | OI S panning three states in the Mid-South United States, Baptist Cancer Center brings to life its mission of treating patients close to home. The cancer center is part of Baptist Memorial Health Care, a regional healthcare system that consists of 23 locations across Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, with its largest cancer center …
With more than 25 years of oncology nursing experience and more than 18 years as an oncology nurse practitioner, Christa Braun-Inglis, MS, APRN-Rx, FNP-BC, AOCNP, has a wealth of clinical expertise.
Key results from a national survey show a range of new initiatives.
Our only means of contact with a patients was through his friend who lived near the abandoned house the patient stayed in and who could take his phone to the patient if needed. After a quick search online, I found two websites that offered cell phones to low-income patients at little to no cost to them.
Learn about effective tools to understand a patient’s values, preferences, goals, and priorities and discover strategies to help your patients ask important questions and make tough decisions.
Between Life and Death is a collection of real-life stories of ordinary people who displayed extraordinary bravery as they approached the end of their lives. By acknowledging death as a necessary transition rather than an unknown to be feared and avoided, these patients embraced their end days by living each day they had left to the fullest. The patients profiled in this book provide guidance not only …
Miami Cancer Institute shares their unique approach to helping patients with cancer understand why biosimilars may be their best—and most cost-effective—option for treatment.
When an area is medically under-resourced, it can have a negative effect on care coordination, leading to delays in advanced imaging, diagnostic procedures, and surgical interventions. Advanced practice providers (APPs)—which our system defines as both nurse practitioners and physician assistants—can help improve access to quality care in the rural setting.
As a CoC-accredited critical access hospital—one of only about a dozen nationwide—The Outter Banks Hospital has developed a quality program with a focus on removing rurally linked barriers to care.
Part of the hardship of COVID-19 is that the imperative to stay well by sheltering in place eliminates the option for group gatherings and other much-needed sources of peer support. As with many other groups and organizations, some cancer programs and practices have reached out to their patients virtually to provide the encouragement they once enjoyed in face-to-face support groups.
By Mickey LeRoy, RA, LEED AP & Timothy Hsu, MHSA Social media healthcare channels and email lists are bursting with articles on “surge planning” and invitations to online discussions about the post-pandemic return of patients. While valuable, what is only beginning to emerge from these discussions is a longer view understanding of what “the new normal” looks like for healthcare facilities. …
This blog is the eighth of an eight-part ACCCBuzz series highlighting the achievements of the 2020 ACCC Innovator Award Winners. You can learn more about the innovations being recognized this year and the people who pioneered them by joining us at the upcoming ACCC 37th [Virtual] National Oncology Conference, September 14-18. Largely due to the necessity of being able to respond quickly to potential …
This blog is the seventh of an eight-post ACCCBuzz series highlighting the achievements of the 2020 ACCC Innovator Award Winners. You can learn more about the innovations being recognized this year and the people who pioneered them by joining us at the upcoming ACCC 37th [Virtual] National Oncology Conference, Sept. 14-18. The degree of success that participating cancer programs have had meeting the …
This blog is the third of an eight-post ACCCBuzz series highlighting the achievements of the 2020 ACCC Innovator Award Winners. You can learn more about the innovations being recognized this year and the people who pioneered them by joining us at the upcoming ACCC 37th [Virtual] National Oncology Conference, September 14-18. Patient health literacy is an essential—but often lacking—aspect of quality …
“I don’t know a single cancer patient who is not anxious,” says Jenn Paxton, LCSW, OSW-C, a social worker at Texas Oncology in South Dallas. Paxton, who meets with cancer patients from the recently diagnosed to those dealing with end-of-life issues, says accurate, empathetic communication that meets patients where they are on their cancer journeys is essential to providing quality care. Key to doing …
Laura Holmes Haddad shares how her battle with breast cancer changed her perception of the resources available to younger adults with cancer, and what cancer programs can do to meet their needs.
Our results indicated that food insecure patients tended to complete fewer months of treatment than their food secure counterparts. Food insecure patients who refused assistance had the lowest number of months of completed treatment; most food insecure patients who received assistance completed more of their treatment.