Pilot program aims to improve colorectal cancer screening rates, access to specialty care in US community health centers

Three locations will each receive $100,000 in funding to launch pilot programs to improve colorectal cancer screening rates and follow-up care for patients served by community health centers. The program is the work of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable and is part of the group’s effort to reach the goal of 80 percent of adults 50 and over receiving regular screening for colorectal cancer by 2018. The pilot communities chosen after a competitive process are: Port Royal, South Carolina; New Haven, Connecticut; and St. Paul, Minnesota. Each of the three pilot communities will develop local models to address barriers to colorectal cancer screening access and follow up care for patients served by community health centers. Read more here.