Benefits of Network Program Accreditation
What are the benefits of being in a CoC-Accredited Network Cancer Program?
For the Patient and Community, our Standards ensure:
- Quality of care close to home provided by one network system.
- Coordinated service locations and practitioners within one system.
- Comprehensive care offering a more complete range of state-of-the-art services and equipment within one system.
- Multidisciplinary team/facility approach to coordinate the best treatment options available.
- Access to cancer-related education and support within one system.
- Information about ongoing cancer clinical trials and new treatment options communicated throughout the network.
For the Facility and Medical Staff, our Accreditation Program offers:
- A model for organizing and managing your network to ensure multidisciplinary, integrated, and comprehensive oncology services throughout the system.
- Sharing of cancer-related information on patients seen within network for all those involved in providing cancer care.
- Recognition by other national health care organizations, including the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals Organization (JCAHO), as having established performance measures for high-quality cancer care across the network continuum.
- Monitoring cancer patient outcomes using the network data collected by the cancer registry from all facilities involved.
- Information about ongoing cancer clinical trials and new treatment options communicated throughout the network.
- Free marketing and national public exposure through the Facility Information Profile System (FIPS) – an information sharing effort of resources, services and cancer experience located on the CoC Web site.
- Participation in the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) - a nationwide oncology outcomes database. Pooled data from all facilities will be displayed as one network program.
- Access to benchmark reports containing national aggregate data and network-specific data to assess patterns of care and outcomes relative to national norms and to monitor and improve care across the continuum.
- Participation in Special Studies for the ad hoc collection of specific data to address important cancer problems.
- Marketing tools provided to communicate CoC-accreditation and its benefits to the community.
For more information on becoming a CoC-Accredited Network Cancer Program contact the Accreditation Program staff at the Commission on Cancer.
Revised January 14, 2010