Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
Address: Family Practice & Counseling Network 4700 Wissahickon Avenue, Suite 118 Philadelphia, PA 19144 Project Director: Emily Nichols, MPH, PCMH-CCE Contact information: p: 267-597-3604 f: 267-597-3622 enichols@fpcn.com www.fpcn.com Funds requested: $491,693.27 Abstract: This application for the Accelerating Cancer Screening (AxCS) opportunity aims to address colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and referral for care and treatment in sections of West, North, and Southwest Philadelphia. Resource for Human Development/Family Practice and Counseling Network (FPCN) proposes to increase screening and referral in collaboration with the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, working together with an additional FQHC (Spectrum Health Services) and a Health Center Controlled Network, the Health Federation of Philadelphia. The partnering organizations will focus on the unscreened patient population of the participating health centers, comprising approximately five thousand residents of Philadelphia, who are predominantly low-income, Black/African American, and who experience multiple barriers to comprehensive health care services. Through centralized use of population health management systems, the project team will develop outreach lists for carefully targeted mailings that include patient education and a FIT kit, thus enabling a broad, efficient approach to addressing gaps in preventive screening worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Text messages informed by behavioral science will encourage patients to use the FIT kits and mail back their tests. Health center systems will be used to track and follow-up on results. The Cancer Center will support the health centers with expertise in mailed FIT campaigns as well as through a contracted Navigator who will provide intensive, personalized services to patients with a positive FIT who need colonoscopy and possible follow-up care. Through this methodology, the partnering organizat ions expect to double rates of CRC screening (over one thousand individuals screened). In addition, this project will test the viability of centralized, technology-enabled outreach for cancer screening across multiple health centers, and support enhanced capacity for navigation services in FQHCs.
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