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Implementation of the imaging nurse navigator role has helped remove barriers for breast care delivery surrounding access, timeliness, volumes, and outmigration.

In 2014, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer mandated in Standard 3.3 that survivorship care plans (SCPs) be provided for all patients at the completion of active cancer treatment. Minimum requirements for what the SCP should include were provided; however, no standardized model was proposed.

Delivery of a personalized TS/SCP for cancer survivors is a widely endorsed standard of care.

The Northwell Health Cancer Institute consists of 12 disease site Centers of Excellence, one being the Breast Cancer Center of Excellence.

The impetus to create a survivorship program at our community hospital–based cancer center was our desire to attain NAPBC accreditation.

Cancer and its treatment can have long-lasting or late-onset effects. A robust survivorship program, founded on distress screening and survivorship care plans as recommended by the Institute of Medicine and Commission on Cancer (CoC), can offer support, guide treatment, and provide education in the years after completing cancer treatment.

Through a grant provided by the American Cancer Society, AltaMed Health Services (AltaMed) implemented a Breast Cancer Outreach and Screening Program with multiple elements. The overall program aims to provide breast health education and screening mammograms to eligible women who are patients at the West Covina, El Monte, and Santa Ana-Bristol clinics.

Partnerships between churches and universities have emerged as a promising approach for addressing public health inequities. EPICS is a community outreach and screening program.

This work indicates that the use of technology can improve diagnosis of early-stage lung cancer in the ER setting within the general population.

In a recent discussion review on the number of women being screened at the Women’s Imaging Center, the nurse navigator noticed that there was no screening program for women in the inpatient setting.