Patient Navigation to Improve Patient-Centered Cancer Care

Patient Navigation to Improve Patient-Centered Cancer Care

The MGH Cancer Center's patient navigation (PN) program, utilizes specially trained community-based personnel to improve cancer care in underserved communities by increasing cancer screening and removing barriers to timely care. This program incorporate rigorous evaluation to demonstrate the impact of innovation in healthcare delivery.

This program allow cancer patients from MGH Community Health Centers (CHC) and surrounding communities who experience barriers to accessing care, including poverty, and limited English proficiency, and provide them navigation to receive timely, guideline-concordant treatment at MGH Cancer Center. By offering these vulnerable individuals a patient-centered approach to treatment, The investigators aim to promote patient engagement and increase access throughout the continuum of cancer care.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (age 18 and older)

• Newly diagnosed with cancer referred from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) community health centers in

  • Revere
  • Chelsea
  • Charlestown
  • surrounding communities referred to receive cancer treatment at the MGH Cancer Center

Exclusion Criteria:

-Patients that primary care providers exclude