Healthcare Partnerships

We uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Create a healthcare partnership with us to supplement your existing staff with seamless, turnkey options to meet your goals. Our flexible program works to complement your workflow to improve staff bandwidth, provide immediate connection to professional networks and direct support for oncology providers.

Program Areas

• Proactive Navigation
• Education- Frankly Speaking About Cancer 
• Research - Cancer Experience Registry
• Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes
• Distress Screening – MyCareReport Platform
• Survivorship - Cancer Transitions 
• Health Equity & Health Related Social Needs Screening
• Supporting or Meeting CoC, NAPBC, EOM, NCCN, QOPI and Hospital CAHAPS Standards

Health Equity

Improving health equity is a top-10 goal in 2024 for healthcare executives. Joining a healthcare partnership with Cancer Support Community creates the opportunity to achieve your health equity goals through our unique programs with access to our health equity in action department.

Cost Mitigation

• 50% decrease in emergency department visits, reduction in hospitalization days.
• Annually, depressed cancer patients cost $100,000 more than non-depressed cancer patients and are more than two times more likely to die by suicide than their counterparts.
• 76% of patient’s define “value” in terms of the relationship they have with their care team.

Program Model

Distress + Linking of Services = Impact

Value-based, patient and caregiver centered care is a model Cancer Support Community has been following for 40+ years. The shift to incentivized payments for value includes an emphasis on the whole patient to engage with them proactively, during and between appointments.

MyCareReport Platform Assessments: Our assessment, resource, and referral solution for scalable use in health centers with immediate triage and resource allocation based on local and national resources. The core objective is to support providers in busy or under-resourced community practices to quickly and efficiently identify patients who have clinically indicated levels of distress or specific unmet health-related social needs and connect them with support and financial services, tailored resources, educational materials, and referrals. Historically the platform has been used primarily in hospitals, health centers, and nonprofits in North America. 

• CancerSupportSource™ / CancerSupportSource™-Caregiver

  
  CancerSupportSource is our community-based distress screening, referral, and support program for adults diagnosed with cancer. CancerSupportSource-Caregiver is the first and only cancer caregiver distress screening, referral, and support program for care partners and family caregivers. The goal of our CSS programs is to rapidly identify and respond to unmet needs, thereby better enabling patients and caregivers to navigate care and treatment, practice self-care, and enhance well-being.

• Checking IN

  
  Our evidence-informed digital distress screening solution Checking IN is designed for pediatric patients ages 8 through 21 who have cancer or other chronic medical conditions and their parents. Developed by researchers in the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health, and using our technology, this screener and automated referral system includes real-time feedback and automated tracking with clear identification of trends, problem areas, and psychosocial risks.

  Read how Atrium Health used Checking IN for kids with medical conditions.

   

• Health Related Social Needs (HRSN)

  The HRSN is a screening tool created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to help identify the social needs that are impacting patients' health outcomes. The tool assesses the domains that make up a patient’s social context including living situation, finances, education, transportation, utilities and more.