Taking Aim at Cancer in Louisiana

Increasing colorectal Cancer screening in primary care practices: established systems that support office practices that will result in reliable and sustainable screening and follow-up systems for crc screening to intiation of treatment in federally qualified health centers and rural health centers. Tacl has contracted with the Louisiana Cancer control and prevention program (lcp) to implement a learning collaborative with 5 identified primary care practices who serve a majority of medical patients to help them implement evidence-based interventions to increase their current colorectal Cancer screening rates. This will be a virtual learning series over 12 months that will bring clinicians together to learn best practices that will help set-up reliable systems throughout the screening process. Tacls roll will be to work with lcp to oversee the planning and intervention. Lcp will ultimately be responsible for the implementation.

Adherence to breast Cancer treatment protocols: to help ensure appropriate evidence-based measures are put in place to help improve outcomes for patients facing breast Cancer.

Cancer screening registry for colorectal Cancer: to reduce redundancy and streamline reporting by creating a single state-wide Cancer screening registry for Louisiana so more efficient access is available to reliable population base screening date for colorectal and breast Cancer.

Louisiana payer council: to align payer systems around tacls goals and priorities and coordinate and align efforts to remove barriers to colorectal Cancer screening.

Transportation pilot for patients receiving breast and colorectal Cancer treatment with Louisiana united way, 211 and lyft founded by bcbs foundation in Louisiana. Providing free rides through lyft to Cancer patients recieving treatment from 4 Cancer treatment centers across Louisiana for breast and colorectal Cancer.

Mco community health worker pilot: managed care organizations funded a pilot region for community health workers to focus on education and navagating individuals to screening. This was done through the organizations working committees, the Louisiana prayer concil.

Community health worker training: continuing education offered to community health workers on breast and colorectal Cancer.

Expanding access to colonoscopies: explore opportunities to increase access by expanding scope of providers accepting medicaid and expanding after hours and weekend colonoscopies.

Build public awareness campaign: to increase awareness among Louisiana citizens on the need/frequency of crc screening and educate providers on latest screening guidelines and acceptable screening modalities.

Community health worker (chw)-patient navigtor (pn) learning collaborative: training existing chw-pns on Cancer components for breast and colorectal cancers to help overcome barriers for getting individuals screened in poor areas. Tacl launched a 11 month virtual learning collaborative with community health workers and patient navigators to teach them how to educate and move individuals through the complete continuum of care from screening to intiation of treatment for breast and colorectal Cancer. We had approximately 20 chw-pns from managed care organizations, Louisiana department of health, Louisiana primary carte systems, prevention on the go screening mobile program (mbp Cancer center) and partners in wellness mobile screening program in north Louisiana.