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Funding Community Health Workers and Patient Navigators in Cancer Care: Understanding New Medicare Billing Codes

This webinar will help explain the CY2024 CMS physician fee schedule (aka “CMS rule”) as it pertains to Principal Illness Navigation, Community Health Integration, and Social Determinants of Health Risk Assessment codes. We will discuss what we know, what we don’t know, and how to comment on real-world implementation of these new codes. We will also discuss training and resources to position cancer patient navigators for success and provide examples from two states and their CHW trainings and certification processes.

Young Survival Coalition 2024 YSC Summit

At the YSC Summit, every presenter is handpicked for their expertise and dedication to the young breast cancer experience.

Summit workshops help you build personalized survivorship from the inside out. Surround yourself with young survivors, thrivers and co-survivors, all creating their unique life after a cancer diagnosis with help from thought leaders in the medical, research and wellness spaces.

Screenable cancers on the rise, colorectal cancer leads cancer deaths in younger Americans

In January, the American Cancer Society released its annual Cancer Facts & Figures, a report that compiles the most recent cancer incidence and mortality data to show how cancer is impacting the nation and each state. The data show that four screenable cancers—breast, prostate, colorectal, and cervical—are on the rise.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers - Virtual Session

Are you caring for an adult relative, spouse, or loved one?
Powerful Tools for Caregivers is an evidence-based program, offering a unique approach to understanding and navigating the challenges you face as a caregiver. Learn strategies for overcoming negative self-talk and communicating needs and feelings, increase self-confidence in coping with caregiving demands, improve self-care behaviors, and learn about local resources.

This program helps caregivers improve:

Nevada Radon Education Program's 2024 EPA Tri-Regional Stakeholder Meeting

The Nevada Radon Education Program hosts this two-day meeting with workshops, updates, and guest speakers discussing radon mitigation, lung cancer and other chronic diseases related to radon exposure, and initiatives throughout the West. 

Register here.

For more information contact Christine Kelly.

Assemblies, classroom presentations a fun part of Sun Smart Schools

School districts in Nevada are required to have a sun safety policy, and for many of them, that includes participating in the Sun Smart Schools program. In addition to providing curriculum and classroom materials educating students in grades K-12 on sun safety, Sun Smart Schools offers school assemblies and classroom presentations to build and reinforce sun safety knowledge and skills.