Patient Navigators: Agents of Creating Community-Nested Patient-Centered Medical Homes for Cancer Care

  • Simon M
  • Samaras A
  • Nonzee N
  • et al.
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Patient navigation is an internationally utilized, culturally grounded, and multifaceted strategy to optimize patients' interface with the health-care team and system. The DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative (DPNC) is a campus-community partnership designed to improve access to care among uninsured breast and cervical cancer patients in DuPage County, IL. Importantly, the DPNC connects community-based social service delivery with the patient-centered medical home to achieve a community-nested patient-centered medical home model for cancer care. While the patient navigator experience has been qualitatively documented, the literature pertaining to patient navigation has largely focused on efficacy outcomes and program cost effectiveness. Here, we uniquely highlight stories of women enrolled in the DPNC, told from the perspective of patient navigators, to shed light on the myriad barriers that DPNC patients faced and document the strategies DPNC patient navigators implemented.

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Simon, M. A., Samaras, A. T., Nonzee, N. J., Hajjar, N., Frankovich, C., Bularzik, C., … Dong, X. (2016). Patient Navigators: Agents of Creating Community-Nested Patient-Centered Medical Homes for Cancer Care. Clinical Medicine Insights: Women’s Health, 9, CMWH.S39136. https://doi.org/10.4137/cmwh.s39136

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