Healthy Lifestyles Grants: In May 2006, the WI CCC Program awarded six Healthy Lifestyle grants to local nutrition and physical activity coalitions. The purpose of Healthy Lifestyle grants is to improve nutrition and increase physical activity within the adult working population through the development of worksite wellness programs.
To be eligible for this grant the local coalition is required to partner with local businesses. Together the local coalition and its business partner(s) will develop and implement a worksite nutrition and physical intervention using the evidence-based strategies and action steps in the WI CCC Plan 2005-2010. Additionally, this project will foster partnerships between local community coalitions and worksites.
The Healthy Lifestyle Award Recipients are:
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Burnett County Nutrition Coalition
- Coulee Region Childhood Obesity Coalition
- Fit City Madison
- Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) of Marathon County
- Sheboygan County Coalition for Kids' Activity and Nutrition
- Healthy People Wood County
For more information, contact Amy
Ellestad Conlon at conlon@uwccc.wisc.edu or
608-265-9322.
Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Projects: Since October 2005, different system based interventions have been implemented at three healthcare sites (listed below). Results from these demonstration sites will be disseminated in a menu of options to other Wisconsin based healthcare systems by late 2006.
The Healthcare Sites are:
- Wheaton Franciscan Health Care (Milwaukee Area): Chart reminders and patient reminder letters.
- Gundersen Lutheran (LaCrosse Area): Employee and patient role model program.
- Marshfield Clinic (Eau Claire): Point-of-care scheduling project.
For more information, contact Amy
Ellestad Conlon at conlon@uwccc.wisc.edu or
608-265-9322.
Milwaukee Regional Cancer Care Network: Under the leadership of the Center for Urban Population Health (UWM, Aurora-Sinai and UW-Madison partnership), Milwaukee healthcare and community based organization have come together to collaborate on ways to break down barriers to accessing cancer care. The Milwaukee Regional Cancer Care Network will focus on breaking down barriers within the healthcare system that limit access to quality cancer care. The concept of Regional Partnership Networks is a strategy in the treatment chapter of the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan.
For more information, contact Amy
Ellestad Conlon at conlon@uwccc.wisc.edu or
608-265-9322.
Community-Based Participatory Partnerships with Underserved/Minority Populations: The WI CCC Program has built community based participatory partnerships with five communities. These communities include: Milwaukee African Americans and Urban Indians, Dane County Latinos, Monroe County rural poor, and Hmong statewide. Key elements of this project are to stage community readiness, implement programs to reduce cancer burden, and assess the perceived quality of cancer care in their communities. In the second half of 2006, WI CCC Program will expand efforts within these communities, test the model in communities that have not yet been engaged, and begin to translate the findings into useable strategies for other researchers and communities.
For more information, contact Jackie Matloub at matloub@uwccc.wisc.edu or 608-262-2912.
Palliative Care Academic Detailing: In Wisconsin, there are too few patients accessing hospice and palliative care services, too few professionals trained in palliative care, and too many patients dying in hospitals and nursing homes, rather than at home with their loved ones. To address these disparities, academic detailing has been used in three pilot sites in Wisconsin to educate primary care providers on the importance of palliative care and improve patient access. Currently WI CCC Program is conducting a pilot academic detailing project in palliative care with sites in Green Bay, Ashland, and Dodgeville, Wisconsin. These sites were chosen because of the need for palliative care services in those areas.
With the palliative care project, Dr. Jim Cleary has provided two physician based CME presentations on the concepts of palliative care at each of the three sites. The project has provided funding for a portion of a trained hospice doctor or nurse's time to be the Detailer. The Detailer is already on staff at the site and has immediate access to the physicians at those sites. After the CME presentation, the detailer follows up with individualized sessions with primary care providers at the pilot sites. The ultimate goal is increased understanding of palliative care and pain management by primary care providers at each of the pilot sites.
For more information, contact Jeanne Strickland at jsstrickland@wisc.edu or
608-263-2214.
ACCESS (Assessing Cancer Care and Satisfaction Survey): This survey will identify barriers that affect patient satisfaction, qualify of life, and treatment options in 4,000 Wisconsin cancer survivors of prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung cancers. The intent of this survey is to develop long-term data measurement parameters and provide information for motivating changes to ultimately support improvements in the quality of the cancer care patients receive in Wisconsin. The first wave of mailing the survey to breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer survivors occurred in summer 2006. The response rate to this survey continues to be very high. The lung cancer survey should go out this fall.
For more information, contact Jeanne Strickland at jsstrickland@wisc.edu or
608-263-2214.
