THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS announced the six winners of its 2015 Innovator Awards.
This year’s winners are:
- Eastern Maine Medical Center Cancer Program, for improving efficiency, safety and the patient experience with location technology.
- Lancaster General Hospital and the Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute, for creating a Cancer Patient Support Fund for patients experiencing financial distress.
- Mary Washington Healthcare Regional Cancer Center, for the center’s focused “prehabilitation” program that couples physical therapy with holistic care that includes nutritional support, stress reduction strategies and nurse navigator intervention, which decreased hospital length of stay for thoracic oncology patients by 40 percent.
- PIH Health Comprehensive Community Cancer Program, for its nurse practitioner-run Lung Cancer Screening Program that utilizes an enrollment method that allows primary care practitioners to refer patients or for the patient to self-refer.
- Providence Cancer Center, which offers a supportive group model to deliver early and ongoing intervention and support throughout cancer care and creating a framework to talk about the impact of cancer on the family.
- The Seton Cancer Program of the Seton Family of Hospitals, for developing a standardized, integrated database of clinical and business metrics to measure, analyze and improve patient care and operational efficiency.
More details about each program are available on the ACCC website.
