The American Cancer Society Leadership in Oncology Navigation program helps navigation professionals and oncology organizations build sustainable patient navigation services to improve cancer outcomesATLANTA, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Cancer Society announced the launch of the American Cancer Society Leadership in Oncology Navigation (ACS LION™) program, a national training and credentialing program that is working with oncology organizations to standardize high-quality, expert patient navigation for persons with cancer and their caregivers.

美国癌症协会在肿瘤导航计划中的领导作用帮助导航专业人员和肿瘤组织建立可持续的患者导航服务，以改善癌症结果。塔兰塔，2024年2月28日/新闻专线/——今天，美国癌症协会宣布启动美国癌症协会肿瘤导航领导（ACS LION™）计划，一个国家培训和认证计划，正在与肿瘤组织合作，为癌症患者及其护理人员提供高质量的专家患者导航。

Oncology navigation professionals work with patients within clinics and community-based settings, from abnormal finding through survivorship, to assist in guiding them past barriers that might impact receiving the best cancer outcomes. Achieving consistent, reliable cancer navigation nationwide requires standardization of training that adheres to best practices..

肿瘤学导航专业人员在诊所和社区环境中与患者合作，从异常发现到生存，帮助他们克服可能影响获得最佳癌症结果的障碍。在全国范围内实现一致，可靠的癌症导航需要遵循最佳实践的培训标准化。。

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The ACS LION program offers the American Cancer Society’s expertise to train and credential navigators in core competencies that align with workforce standards and provide implementation support for oncology organizations interested in sustainable navigation.

ACS LION计划为美国癌症协会提供专业知识，以培训和认证导航员的核心能力，这些核心能力符合劳动力标准，并为对可持续导航感兴趣的肿瘤组织提供实施支持。

The ACS LION program offers the American Cancer Society's expertise to train and credential navigators in core competencies that align with workforce standards and provide implementation support for oncology organizations interested in sustainable navigation. To widely train their navigation workforce, the following oncology organizations have signed on as the program's initial partners:.

ACS LION计划为美国癌症协会提供专业知识，以培训和认证导航员的核心能力，这些核心能力符合劳动力标准，并为对可持续导航感兴趣的肿瘤组织提供实施支持。为了广泛培训导航人员，以下肿瘤组织已签署为该计划的初始合作伙伴：。

Duke Cancer Institute Supportive Care & Survivorship Center

杜克癌症研究所支持治疗与生存中心

Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center

西奈山Tisch癌症中心

Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center

宾夕法尼亚州医学院艾布拉姆森癌症中心

Thyme Care

百里香护理

The US Oncology Network

美国肿瘤学网络

A widely recognized intervention in addressing cancers disparities, oncology navigation helps individuals, caregivers and families through cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship, but equitable adoption of navigation services has been a challenge. Until January 1, 2024, nonclinical services have not been covered by Medicare or qualified as a reimbursable expense by most commercial health insurance, making it unavailable or dependent upon philanthropic or administrative budget support and subject to changing funding climates.

肿瘤学导航是解决癌症差异的公认干预措施，通过癌症筛查，诊断，治疗和生存帮助个人，护理人员和家庭，但公平采用导航服务一直是一个挑战。直到2024年1月1日，非临床服务还没有被医疗保险覆盖，也没有被大多数商业健康保险列为可报销费用，因此无法获得或依赖慈善或行政预算支持，并且需要不断变化的资金环境。

Additionally, programs that have the financial resources to offer navigation differ in the quality and consistency of navigation services due to community needs, populations served, organizational setting and available infrastructure and staffing.'Every person diagnosed with cancer should have access to high-quality navigation across the cancer continuum,' said Dr.

此外，由于社区需求、所服务的人口、组织设置以及可用的基础设施和人员配备，拥有提供导航的财政资源的项目在导航服务的质量和一致性方面存在差异。”“每个被诊断出患有癌症的人都应该能够获得跨越癌症连续体的高质量导航，”博士说。

Arif Kamal, chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society. 'Navigation by trained professionals has been consistently proven to enhance access to personalized and timely cancer care while promoting health equity for all populations. Using the American Cancer Society's expertise in navigation to train and credential others is an important part of helping expand the nation's capacity for cancer navigation while contributing to the standardization of best practices in this critical area of care.'Recent changes to the Medicare Physician Fee schedule have opened a pathway to reimbursement of professional, non-clinical navigation services, allowing oncology organizations to sustain professional navigators or create new programs, but standardized training and credentialing is required.

美国癌症协会首席病人官阿里夫·卡马尔（ArifKamal）训练有素的专业人员的导航一直被证明可以增强个性化和及时的癌症护理，同时促进所有人群的健康公平。利用美国癌症协会在导航方面的专业知识对其他人进行培训和认证，是帮助扩大国家癌症导航能力的重要组成部分，同时有助于这一关键护理领域最佳实践的标准化。”最近对医疗保险医生费用表的修改为专业非临床导航服务的报销开辟了一条途径，允许肿瘤组织维持专业导航员或创建新项目，但需要标准化的培训和认证。

The ACS LION program meets the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) training .

ACS LION计划与医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（CMS）培训中心会面。