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Nebraska Breast Cancer Control Partnership Network

Nebraska Breast Cancer Control Partnership Network. Strengthening relationships, sharing resources and celebrating successes www.bcpartnerships.net. Purpose: I mplement State Breast Cancer Control Plan. Screening .

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Nebraska Breast Cancer Control Partnership Network

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  1. Nebraska Breast Cancer Control Partnership Network Strengthening relationships, sharing resources and celebrating successes www.bcpartnerships.net

  2. Purpose: Implement State Breast Cancer Control Plan

  3. Screening Purpose: Increase screening delivery and improve follow-up by health care providers. Target screening rate outcomes: • women with incomes below $35,000/yr from 61% to 70% • rural women from 68% to 76% Task Force Chair: Marilyn Kile, Good Samaritan Hospital Cancer Center Over 20 active task force participants http://www.bcpartnerships.net/screening

  4. Priority Screening Task Force Projects • Promote regional partnerships of organizations involved in breast health care to identify local mammography rates and barriers to screening (financial, transportation, cultural, etc.) resulting in community-based strategizing and evidence-based action. • Promote collaborative relationships to support referrals to financial assistance programs that reduce the cost burden of breast health screening andfacilitate networking to share successful program models. • Promote the use of a genetic counseling assessment tool to help high risk women access services.

  5. Priority Screening Task Force Project 1. Promote regional partnerships of organizations involved in breast health care to identify local mammography rates and barriers to screening (financial, transportation, cultural, etc.) resulting in community-based strategizing and evidence-based action. http://www.bcpartnerships.net/regional-resources http://www.bcpartnerships.net/finding-funding/for-projects/making-your-case

  6. Priority Screening Task Force Project 2. Promote collaborative relationships to support referrals to financial assistance programs that reduce the cost burden of breast health screening andfacilitate networking to share successful program models. http://www.bcpartnerships.net/screening/free-community-screening-programs

  7. Priority Screening Task Force Project 3. Promote the use of a genetic counseling assessment tool to help high risk women access services. • Clarification of genetic counseling and BRCA testing as preventive services under the Affordable Care Act • Plan to develop as a “take home” educational tool and pilot-test with community breast health navigators in Douglas/Sarpy counties http://www.bcpartnerships.net/screening/genetic-counseling-assessment-tool

  8. Specific Questions about Projects or Website? Nebraska Breast Cancer Control Plan Project Coordinator: Lori Vidlak Bluestem Interactive, Inc. 402.525.6973 lori@bluesteminteractive.com Services contracted with funding from the CDC through Every Woman Matters, Nebraska DHHS

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