Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Address: 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010-3000 Project Director Name: Dr. Kimlin Ashing PhD Contact Phone Numbers: 626-218-4537 Email Address: kashing@coh.org Website Address: www.coh.org List all Grant Programs Funds Requested in the Application, if applicable: City of Hope Medical Center joins with requisite community partners to provide comprehensive cancer screening in the Antelope Valley (AV) region. AV is heavily impacted by chronic disease and cancer disparities in this community where COH is an established provider of quality cancer care to reduce the burden of this illness by improving early diagnosis and preventing cancer. COH has a longstanding role of providing cancer care in a previous cancer services desert. We will provide mobile breast, cervical, prostate, colon and lung cancer screening. Low income and ethnic minority persons are less likely to be screened, diagnosed with more advanced cancers and have poorer survival rates. Early stages of cancer usually present no symptoms. It is highly treatable if detected early. Routine screening is safe and should not be delayed while can be prevented and lives saved. Despite expanded health care coverage due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there is still a need to address access to care, in particular, helping people obtain health care coverage, improving access to specific services like cancer screening, and increasing access to community-level preventive health care services and health education. Through diverse partnership with the funders, City of Hope Community Practice Sites, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health insurance plans, managed care organizations, non-profit grassroot organizations, churches, community-based organizations, mental health organizations, marketplace navigators, and employers, the mobile screening program will provide breast, cervical, colorectal, prostate, and skin cancer screenings services, health service navigation, and cancer health ed ucation to communities designated as the most medically underserved. We will also raise awareness about clinical trials underway for cancer and the importance of ethnic minority representation in health studies and clinical trials. City of Hope’s Community-based cancer education and screenings among persons in AV will leverage community partnerships to direct and provide free cancer screenings to at-risk African-American and Latino men, and other men from low-income, uninsured/underinsured families in the AV area. We propose to screen 8,000 at-risk persons over a one-year period. The program will be co-led by Dr. Merla, (AV oncologists), Dr. Brown (Chief Nurse) and Dr. Ashing Ph.D., (Professor and Founding Director, Center of Community Alliance for Research and Education) at City of Hope. The program will be supported by a Project Coordinator, and a licensed phlebotomist trained to draw blood for laboratory tests. COH will exceed all patient rights protection and safety guidelines including COVID-19 protocol. Using the mobile unit, screenings will be provided to target populations at health education events planned by the Project and Event Coordinators and co-sponsored with community-based organizations (churches, grass roots advocacy groups, cancer survivor programs, community clinics, etc.). Individuals will be given health education about cancer and offered education and skill-building for healthy lifestyle changes and chronic disease management within a medically underserved community.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).