Transcript The CEO Cancer Gold Standard™

The CEO Cancer
Gold Standard™
Jill Maughan, MEd
Program Coordinator
Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
Chronic Disease Branch
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Section
http://www.cancergoldstandard.org/
What is it?
• A work site wellness framework
• A program focusing on cancer prevention &
control
• A comprehensive approach to cancer control
Why does it
matter?
Goals of Gold Standard
• Risk Reduction
• Early Detection
• Quality Care
Five Pillars
• Pillar #1: Prevention
– Tobacco-Free Workplace
– Nutrition
– Physical Activity
– Healthy Weight
– Vaccines
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Pillar #2: Screening
Pillar #3: Cancer Clinical Trials
Pillar #4: Quality Treatment and Survivorship
Pillar #5: Health Education and Health
Promotion
Accredited Organizations
• Maintain a cultural approach to cancer
prevention & control
• Offer many health protective benefits to their
employees
How to Become Accredited
• Online application
• Tobacco-Free Workplace Policy
• Preparer’s Certification
Are You Ready??
Prevention
Tobacco-Free Workplace
• Is your agency completely tobacco-free (not just smoke-free)
indoors and outdoors?
• Does your policy prohibit all forms of tobacco (cigarettes,
cigars, pipes, and any others), including smokeless tobacco
(chew, snuff, twist), and any others?
• Does your policy prohibit e-cigarettes and all other forms of
electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)?
• Do you have designated areas for the use of tobacco?
• Do you cover, at either no cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing
level, evidence-based tobacco-cessation treatments including
prescription (Rx), non-prescription over-the-counter (OTC)
products and counseling for employees and their covered
dependents?
• Do you sponsor tobacco-cessation programming, in your
workplace, such as a quit line, seminars or onsite support
groups?
Prevention
Nutrition, Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
• Do you value, support and promote healthy food choices,
physical activity, and achieving and maintaining a healthy
weight?
• Do you have specific programming, services, and
opportunities in place to support and enable your
employees follow a healthy diet, be physically active, and
maintain a healthy weight – and avoid or reduce obesity?
Vaccines
• Do you cover FDA-approved and CDC-recommended
vaccines (currently, Gardasil and Cervarix) against the
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for the prevention of cervical
cancer?
Screening
• Do you communicate the importance of
screening for certain cancers to your employees?
• Do your health benefit plans cover, at either no
cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing level,
screening services for breast, colorectal and
cervical cancer?
Clinical Trials
• Do all of your health benefits plans provide
coverage for cancer clinical trials that are
approved by an official Institutional Review Board
(IRB)?
• Is cancer clinical trial participation limited to
individuals considered to be terminally ill?
Quality Treatment &
Survivorship
• Do your health benefits plans provide coverage for
cancer treatment at Commission on Canceraccredited facilities and/or National Cancer Institutedesignated cancer centers?
• Does your workplace culture recognizes the needs of
employees who are cancer survivors themselves or
who are family members/caregivers of cancer
survivors?
Health Education &
Health Promotion
• Do you educate and inform your employees
about all aspects of cancer prevention, screening,
clinical trials, quality care, and survivorship in
order to enable and encourage appropriate
behavior?
• Do you promote employee engagement and
participation in healthy workplace initiatives?