Program Title:
Colorectal Cancer Screening Demonstration Projects
WI CCC Plan Related Chapter / Priority:
Chapter 2: Screening and Detection
Priority A: Increase colorectal screening rates for those 50 years and older, especially in high-risk populations.
Program Description:
Since October 2005, different systems based intervention have been implemented at three healthcare sites. Results from these demonstration sites will be disseminated in a menu of options to other Wisconsin based healthcare systems by late 2006. Health Care Sites: Wheaton Health Care (Milwaukee Area): Chart reminders and patient reminders letters. Gundersen Lutheran (Lacrosse Area): Employee and patient role model program. Marshfeild Clinic (Eau Claire): Point-of-Care scheduling project.
For More Information, Contact:
Name: Amy Ellestad Conlon
Email: conlon@uwcc.wisc.edu
Telephone:
608-265-9322
Program Title:
Milwaukee Regional Cancer Center Network
WI CCC Plan Related Chapter / Priority:
Chapter 3: Treatment
Priority A: Increase access to cancer treatment by reducing economic, geographic, cultural, and systems barriers.
Program Description:
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 way to break down barriers to accessing cancer care. The Milwaukee Regional Cancer Center 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 treatment chapter of the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan.
For More Information, Contact:
Name: Amy Ellestad Conlon
Email: conlon@uwccc.wisc.edu
Telephone:
608-265-9322
Program Title:
Community-Based Participatory Partnership with Underserved/Minority Populations
WI CCC Plan Related Chapter / Priority:
Chapter 3: Treatment
Priority A: Increase access to cancer treatment by reducing economic, geographic, cultural, and systems barriers.
Program Description
The WI CCC Program has built community based participatory partnerships with five communities. These communities include: Milwaukee African American 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 been engaged, and begin to translate the findings into useable strategies for other researchers and communities.
For More Information, Contact:
Name: Jackie Matloub
Email: matloub@uwccc.wisc.edu
Telephone:
608-262-2912
Program Title:
Palliative Care Academic Detailing
WI CCC Plan Related Chapter / Priority:
Chapter 4: Quality of Life
Priority C: Assemble data on quality of life to establish best practices in measuring optimal treatment outcomes.
Program Description
In Wisconsin there are too few patients accessing hospice and palliative care services, to few professionals trained in palliative care, and too many patients dying in hospitals and nursing homes, rather then at home with their loved ones. To address these disparities, academic detailing has been used in three pilot 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 the training hospice doctors or nurse's time to 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:
Name: Jeanne Strickland
Email: jsstrickland@wisc.edu
Telephone:
608-263-2214
Program Title:
ACCESS (Assessing Cancer Care and Satisfaction Survey)
WI CCC Plan Related Chapter / Priority:
Chapter 6: Data Collection and Reporting
Priority C: Improve the quality of completeness of treatment.
Program Description
This survey will identify barriers that affect patient satisfaction, quality of life, and treatment options in 4,000 Wisconsin cancer survivors of prostate, breast, colorectal, and lung cancer. 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:
Name: Jeanne Strickland
Email: jsstrickland@wisc.edu
Telephone:
608-263-2214
