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Hospital Toolkit
Gold Standard Hospitals
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Achieving CEO Cancer Gold Standard accreditation reflects Valley’s commitment to providing exceptional cancer prevention services to our employees, their families, and to all of our patients, and is recognition of the quality of our comprehensive, multidisciplinary patient care. We are proud to have met this high standard and to be recognized for our efforts to reduce the risk of cancer for our employees and the community.
Audrey Meyers
Valley Health System
Hospital Best Practices
Moffitt Cancer Center
Screening
The FluFIT Program (Fecal Immunochemical Test) supports a national initiative to increase colorectal cancer screenings to 80% by 2018. An interdisciplinary team was formed to support this initiative and designed it to be very convenient for eligible team members to complete a colon cancer screening in the privacy and comfort of their own home. The Occupational Health and Wellness teams joined up to provide FIT kits during the organizations mandatory flu vaccination process.
A total of 249 FIT kits were distributed with 161 completing the process. The 65% return rate was much...
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Insight
National Cancer Institute
External Resources
Nutrition & Healthy Weight
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In light of the growing burden of preventable chronic diseases, such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, hospital leadership and champions can promote the health of employees, patients, and communities by considering policies and practices that ensure that the healthier choice is the easier choice. This tool kit provides guidance to hospital nutritionists, human resources and employee health staff, and others who wish to promote and support healthy food, beverage, and physical activity options in hospitals.
Tobacco-Free Workplace
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
People with mental and substance use disorders:
- Are approximately twice as likely as the general population to smoke cigarettes
- Are more likely to die from smoking-related illness than from their mental and substance use disorders (i.e. behavioral health conditions) and
- Want to quit smoking and are able to do so successfully, which both reduces their risk of developing smoking-related diseases and may also improve their behavioral health outcomes.