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Accelerating Cancer Screening - ABSTRACT Project Title: Fiscal Year 2022 Accelerating Cancer Screening Applicant Organization Name: Centro De Salud De La Comunidad De San Ysidro Inc. DBA: San Ysidro Health (H80CS10748) Address: 1601 Precision Park Lane, San Diego, CA 92173-1345 Project Director Name: Sonia Tucker, San Ysidro Health Vice President of Population Health Contact Phone Number: 619- 600- 3020 Email Address: sonia.tucker@syhealth.org Website Address: www.syhealth.org Program Funds Requested: $500,000 for September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2024 (2 years) Proposed Project: San Ysidro Health (SYHealth) is requesting Accelerating Cancer Screening (AxCS) funding to expand and enhance access to preventive and/or colorectal cancer screening (CRC) interventions with a goal of increasing equitable access to services for SYHealth’s high-need, traditionally underserved communities in San Diego County. The proposed project will be tailored to provide culturally and linguistically inclusive services for SYHealth’s patient population, with a specific focus on adults age 50-75 years old. SYHealth’s proposed AxCS Project is designed to 1) increase access to and utilization of comprehensive prevention services, 2) improve CRC clinical care measures, with a focus on providing increased access to patient education, case management, outreach, and enabling services aligned with clinical guidelines, and standards of practice in the provision of CRC care/treatment, and 3) expand organizational practices that support standardized CRC services via partnership with Moores Cancer Center, and enhance overall workforce capacity development and training. Promoting Access Equity to Cancer Screening and Care Referrals: By enhancing patient navigation and care coordination, SYHealth will support early cancer prevention or detection, and timely linkage to follow-up care for its high-need patient population. SYHealth aims to implement a CRC-focused patient navigation and care coordination model, initially starting at key strategic SYHealth sites and ultimately identifying best practices to replicate the project design, and integrate the model across SYHealth’s organizational service delivery network. The proposed AxCS Project is a three-pronged approach to directly address specific areas of need and barriers specific to CRC screening: 1. Increase the number of SYHealth patients who are screened for CRC as part of routine preventive care. 2. Increase the number of SYHealth patients with completed screening procedures (sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy). 3. Improve and enhance culturally and linguistically proficient patient navigation and care coordination services specific to CRC screening and referrals across the organization, and externally via partnership with Moores Cancer Center. Proposed Partnership: SYHealth will work in close partnership with National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health (Moores Cancer Center or Cancer Center). Moores Cancer Center will support SYHealth by leveraging its community outreach and engagement resources to increase access and address barriers to cancer screening and referral for care and treatment.
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