Association of Community Cancer Centers Joins Sustainable Healthy Communities, LLC, Diverse Cancer Communities Working Group

Rockville, MD—The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is pleased to announce its participation in the Diverse Cancer Communities Working Group hosted by Sustainable Healthy Communities, LLC (SHC). ACCC leadership will be serving on several Working Group subcommittees.

“Despite significant progress in cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment, cancer health disparities still remain in communities across our nation. The Association of Community Cancer Centers is committed to ensuring access to quality cancer care and looks forward to contributing to this critical work,” said ACCC Executive Director Christian Downs, JD, MHA.

ACCC joins 22 committed public and private partners in the Diverse Cancer Communities Working Group. Participants will join forces to identify and promote sustainable solutions to eliminate inequities in cancer care.  The Working Group’s overarching goal is to “spotlight existing inequities to identify and deliver solutions to eliminate barriers to cancer screening, referral to appropriate healthcare providers, access to treatment, care, support and inclusive cancer research for all.”  Members of the Working Group include national leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, government, academia, patient advocacy organizations, and life sciences.  

“We are so proud to be working with the leaders of the ACCC. Our CWG partners embrace ACCC’s perspective, agreeing that “together we are stronger.” We look forward to the power of committed collaboration to effect change and sustainable solutions to dissolve barriers to health equity,” said Jeanne M. Regnante, Chair of the CWG.

About the National Minority Quality Forum and Sustainable Healthy Communities

NMQF was founded by Gary A. Puckrein, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer in 1998 to address the critical need for strengthening national and local efforts to use evidence-based, data-driven initiatives to guide programs to eliminate the disproportionate burden of premature death and preventable illness for racial and ethnic minorities and other special populations.  Sustainable Healthy Communities, LLC, its wholly-owned subsidiary, is a pioneering health care improvement information company that continuously measures population health, providing actionable analysis to clinicians, health care systems, researchers, corporations, and policy-makers as well as patients, their care-givers, and community leaders.  Through its exclusive data access, SHC uniquely promotes cost-effective health outcomes for all through big data analytics coupled with impactful visualization and education.  The data analytics are reported in multiple formats guiding innovative efforts to achieve the triple aim—better health care, improving the health of the population and communities, and affordable care. For more information about Sustainable Healthy Communities, please visit www.shcllc.info