Temple Health has earned a 2024 Clinical Care Innovation Grant from Independence Blue Cross. The primary objective of “Advancing Equity and Access to Oncologic Care: Temple Health’s Trauma-Informed Oncology Evaluation Clinic (MVP-CAN),” is to enhance access to equitable cancer care for residents of North Philadelphia. The program places a strong emphasis on addressing social determinants of health and introduces a high-touch, trauma-informed approach to expedite the evaluation of abnormal testing for early cancer diagnosis. The program is spearheaded by:
- Claire Raab, MD, President and CEO, Temple Faculty Physicians
- Rachel Rubin, MD, Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, Temple University Hospital
- Dharmini Shah Pandya, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
- Edward Drayton, Supervisor for Community Health Workers, Temple University Hospital-Main Campus and TUH-Episcopal Campus
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