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The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) recognizes November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month with a list of resources for the multi-disciplinary cancer care professionals treating lung cancer every day across the nation. President Biden recently released a Proclamation on Lung Cancer Awareness Month, in honor of the progress that we have made, and to call upon us to collaborate to continue …
As ACCC President, Randall A. Oyer, MD, selected a theme for his year in office that addresses the serious imbalance in how clinical trials work.
Discover how the Susan G. Komen’s Patient Care Center has been able to improve the accessibility for Spanish-speaking patients by bolstering their team of bilingual staff and leveraging technology.
Rockville, MD—The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is pleased to announce it is collaborating with AstraZeneca, a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company to support a national quality care initiative for patients with stage III and stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States with non-small cell lung cancer …
As the leading education and advocacy organization for the cancer care community, ACCC recognizes that our members are treating an increasing number of Americans with late-stage cancer diagnoses. We believe this legislation will help patients and providers access the necessary technologies to detect cancer earlier.
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.
Duke University Medical Center and Four Seasons Compassion for Life have partnered with the Global Palliative Care Quality Alliance to institute an ambitious plan to standardize quality measurement, promote comparison of data on quality, and share best practices across academic and community palliative care organizations.
Rockville, MD—Burnout among U.S. healthcare clinicians is a national concern. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) established an Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience in 2017 to raise awareness and identify approaches to reverse the trend. Burnout is described by NAM as “a syndrome characterized by a high degree of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization (i.e., …
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) are integral members of the multidisciplinary cancer team that provide care for this chronic patient population.
In order to minimize the challenges of time and resource allocation, Oncology Specialists, SC, set out to create a survivorship care plan (SCP) using its electronic medical record (EMR) as a tool to ease the clinician’s workload and time commitment, while still delivering patient-centered care at the end of treatment.
Concerned about our nursing staff, their stressors, and the sometimes competing priorities, cancer program leadership began to brainstorm ways to increase the amount of “touch time” nurses experienced with their patients in our busy infusion therapy clinic.
In 2010, the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at Johnston-Willis Hospital started to explore how to best serve the emotional and spiritual needs of its oncology nursing staff.
There is growing enthusiasm for the use of telehealth in oncology. Broad adoption of telehealth in the field of oncology is low due to both perceived and real barriers, including operational expertise and acceptance by patients and providers.
As we enter a new calendar year, now is traditionally the time in our lives when we reflect on the last 12 months, note where we have succeeded, and determine where we still need to make improvements.
Caring for patients with cancer is inherently stressful, but many cancer team members say that their difficulties go beyond the expected emotional strain. Robin Hearne, RN, MS, director of Cancer Services and Chronic Disease Care at The Outer Banks Hospital, elaborates on the burdens of bureaucracy and shares the programs she’s developed to provide staff with necessary tools for patient and …
As the senior director of cancer services at Spectrum Health Lakeland in St. Joseph, Mich., I led a breakout session at the 37th [Virtual] ACCC National Oncology Conference in September 2020, where I shared tips for effective and positive leadership in oncology. The first step to becoming an effective leader is to understand the type of leader you are—even if you hold an informal leadership …
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 Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (ABBCI) at Lancaster General Health is a new state-of-the-art facility that exhibits a model of integrated care, with prevention, screening, treatment, education, and survivorship care all under one roof.
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