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#GetScreened Campaign Encouraging the Movement of Routine Cancer Screening
Importance of Screening Cancer is an illness that all too many families are familiar with. As the second leading cause of death in the United States, cancer is a major threat to the lives of millions (CDC, 2022). This massive statistic points to the importance of preventative measures such as routine screenings to reduce one’s […]
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Need For Mental Health Screening in Pediatric Cancer Population
Mental Health in Pediatrics Depression and anxiety amongst cancer patients are leading contributors to the debilitating mental distress that can accompany a cancer diagnosis. The immense impacts on one’s mental wellbeing when living with a chronic illness like cancer are particularly heightened as a child. Instead of worrying about the newest superhero toy, or their […]
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Community Is Stronger Than Cancer
Loneliness Amongst Patients The journey of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care can foster an incredibly isolating environment as patients are often isolated from their family, friends, and accustomed routines and social interactions. In addition to enduring the physical and mental burdens of the illness, days spent moving from one hospital bed to infusion chairs can […]
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Acknowledging Mental Health Risk in Cancer Patients for Mental Health Awareness Month
Scope of the Issue The complexity of a cancer diagnosis constitutes an array of physical, emotional, and mental burdens. Beyond the anticipated changes to one’s physical wellbeing, cancer poses tremendous psychological distress to the brain and threatens a patient’s mental wellbeing. Although conversations on mental health awareness are advancing, there remains a critical need to […]
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Patient Planning Services Named Amongst Top 10 Oncology Solution Companies
Importance of Distress Screening Tools With skyrocketing rates of depression, anxiety and suicide in cancer patients, comes the crucial need for proper intervention. Depression screening tools are at the forefront of engineering comprehensive health services for cancer patients. Patient Planning Services delivers validated mental health screening assessments to analyze the level of distress, depression and […]
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Solution for Distress Screening in Real Time during COVID-19
Having the ability to know how a patient is coping in real-time during COVID-19 without scheduling a full telehealth session is vital. Many patients are nervous to come into clinic nowadays, for good reason. They are already in a high risk group. If they cannot come to us, how do we get to them? The […]
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Keep employees engaged even during a turbulent health crisis
There is an African Proverb that says, “Irrigate before the flood.” We know intuitively that prevention is easier and less expensive than treatment. However, chronic illness has for so long been looked at as symptom management. Cancer is fast becoming one of the largest growing chronic diseases. During the months where elective procedures were closed […]
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Healthcare data analytics identify trends to steer decisions
Mary sits in a waiting room 6 feet apart waiting to see her oncology specialist for what will most likely be an eleven minute visit. She has wanted to talk about the fact that her husband lost his job during the pandemic and she has been skipping doses on her critical oncology medications because they […]
