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Evaluation of Patient Navigation in a Community Radiation Oncology Center Involved in Disparities Studies: A Time-to- Completion-of-Treatment Study

During a calendar year, 72 disparities patients, 38 of whom received navigator services, and a group of 157 nondisparate, un-navigated patients received external beam radiation therapy at a community ...
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Results of Five Years of a Cancer Patient Navigation Training Program for Limited-Resource Settings in the Caribbean and Africa

The CCRI conducted in-person CPN training in 2018 and 2019, paused in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and transitioned to a virtual format in 2021. The program, delivered annually, expanded its ...
Health Affairs

Increasing Emergency Department Patient Navigation And Buprenorphine Use: A Model For Low-Barrier Treatment

Emergency departments (EDs) in the US treat large numbers of people with opioid use disorder (OUD), but most health systems do not equip EDs to provide OUD care. CA Bridge has supported the ...
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Patient Navigators

Anyone who has a non-medical issue that could keep them from getting care can ask for help from a patient navigator. To request an appointment, call the supportive care patient care coordinator or ask ...
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Patient navigators reduce ER visits, hospitalization for high consumers of health care

Texas is one of a handful of states operating under a Medicaid 1115 Transformation Waiver that allows the expansion of Medicaid managed care while simultaneously maintaining hospital funding. Under ...