The CEO Cancer Gold Standard™

Jill Maughan, MEdProgram Coordinator

Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control ProgramChronic Disease Branch

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Section

http://www.cancergoldstandard.org/

What is it?

• A work site wellness framework

• A program focusing on cancer prevention & control

• A comprehensive approach to cancer control

Why does it matter?

Goals of Gold Standard

• Risk Reduction

• Early Detection

• Quality Care

Five Pillars• Pillar #1: Prevention– Tobacco-Free Workplace– Nutrition– Physical Activity– Healthy Weight– Vaccines

• Pillar #2: Screening• Pillar #3: Cancer Clinical Trials• Pillar #4: Quality Treatment and Survivorship• Pillar #5: Health Education and Health

Promotion

Accredited Organizations

• Maintain a cultural approach to cancer prevention & control

• Offer many health protective benefits to their employees

How to Become Accredited• Online application

• Tobacco-Free Workplace Policy

• Preparer’s Certification

Are You Ready??

PreventionTobacco-Free Workplace • Is your agency completely tobacco-free (not just smoke-free)

indoors and outdoors?• Does your policy prohibit all forms of tobacco (cigarettes, cigars,

pipes, and any others), including smokeless tobacco (chew, snuff, twist), and any others?

• Does your policy prohibit e-cigarettes and all other forms of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)?

• Do you have designated areas for the use of tobacco?• Do you cover, at either no cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing level,

evidence-based tobacco-cessation treatments including prescription (Rx), non-prescription over-the-counter (OTC) products and counseling for employees and their covered dependents?

• Do you sponsor tobacco-cessation programming, in your workplace, such as a quit line, seminars or onsite support groups?

PreventionNutrition, Physical Activity and Healthy Weight • Do you value, support and promote healthy food choices, physical

activity, and achieving and maintaining a healthy weight?• Do you have specific programming, services, and opportunities in

place to support and enable your employees follow a healthy diet, be physically active, and maintain a healthy weight – and avoid or reduce obesity?

Vaccines • Do you cover FDA-approved and CDC-recommended vaccines

(currently, Gardasil and Cervarix) against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for the prevention of cervical cancer?

Screening

• Do you communicate the importance of screening for certain cancers to your employees?

• Do your health benefit plans cover, at either no cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing level, screening services for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer?

Clinical Trials• Do all of your health benefits plans provide

coverage for cancer clinical trials that are approved by an official Institutional Review Board (IRB)?

• Is cancer clinical trial participation limited to individuals considered to be terminally ill?

Quality Treatment & Survivorship

• Do your health benefits plans provide coverage for cancer treatment at Commission on Cancer-accredited facilities and/or National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers?

• Does your workplace culture recognizes the needs of employees who are cancer survivors themselves or who are family members/caregivers of cancer survivors?

Health Education & Health Promotion

• Do you educate and inform your employees about all aspects of cancer prevention, screening, clinical trials, quality care, and survivorship in order to enable and encourage appropriate behavior?

• Do you promote employee engagement and participation in healthy workplace initiatives?