Employee Mammography Inreach Resource Kit
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The purpose of an employee mammography inreach program is to create an avenue for identifying undetected cancers among women in the workforce through mammography screening while educating and increasing their awareness of breast cancer screening guidelines. As an added benefit, the program offers potential for enhancing employee satisfaction and improving interpersonal relationships.
The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) Breast Cancer Demonstration Project (BCDP) developed the Employee Mammography Inreach Resource Kit in response to requests and suggestions from HANYS' member hospitals. It includes several items in Microsoft or in Adobe Acrobat formats that can be customized for individualized program design.
This Resource Kit provides comprehensive templates to help you implement an employee mammography inreach program within your facility. It is designed to help you create a program that suits your hospital's needs. The Resource Kit includes samples and prototypes of documents that you can download from HANYS' Web site and customize.
Background
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for all women and the leading overall cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 40 and 59. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2002 alone, 203,500 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Nearly 54,300 cases of female pre-invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2002. One out of every eight women is expected to get breast cancer in her lifetime. New York State has the second highest incidence of breast cancer in the nation.
Routine screening mammography is the single most effective method to detect breast changes that may be cancer, long before physical symptoms can be seen or felt.
The Board of Sponsors of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month conducted a national survey in 1999 to collect information on workplace practices related to breast cancer and concluded that the nation's employers offer an excellent forum for promoting breast cancer awareness. In 2001, New York State hospitals employed 406,000 employees and nearly 75 percent of all hospital employees were female.
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- The HANYS Breast Cancer Demonstration Project's Web site is intended for informational purposes only.
- HANYS BCDP agrees to provide You with electronic access to the documents, both textual and graphic, contained in the Employee Mammography Inreach Program Resource Kit, which You or your organization may retain for business and educational use only. The information from the Employee Mammography Inreach Program Resource Kit may be downloaded and edited by You for customizing to include your organization's logo, name, address, contact information, and telephone numbers only. Any alterations are solely the responsibility of your authors and your organization and do not necessarily represent the official views of HANYS or HANYS Breast Cancer Demonstration Project. Any resale of all or portions of the Employee Mammography Inreach Program Resource Kit is not permitted.
- The Employee Mammography Inreach Program Resource Kit and HANYS BCDP Web site are Copyright 2008 Healthcare Association of New York State. All rights reserved. HANYS BCDP also owns a copyright in this Web site as a collective work and/or compilation, and in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such content. All materials contained on or available through the HANYS BCDPTM's Web site, unless otherwise indicated, are protected by law including, but not limited to, United States copyright and trademark law, as well as other state, national, and international laws and regulations.
- The development of the Employee Mammography Inreach Program Resource Kit was supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U57/CCU220149-01 awarded to the Healthcare Association of New York State's Breast Cancer Demonstration Project from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
