1. Planner, Indoor Air Unit
Medical Outreach
Marc Katz, MPH
Planner, Indoor Air Unit
Indoor Air Unit

2. Synopsis
MDH created a radon education program for hospitals & cancer centers
Used connections of the American Cancer Society to recruit cancer centers
ACS reached out to 32 cancer centers
9 cancer centers participated in the radon education program

3. Topics Radon Education Programmatic Elements
Recruitment of Cancer Centers
Data from the Project
Sample Projects with Cancer Center
Lessons Learned/Takeaways

4. Radon Program - Educational Elements
Staff education
Patient education
Community forums
Health fair events

5. Radon Program - Material Elements
Brochures and educational materials
Social media, newsletters, web and press releases
Free radon test kits and test kit tracking

8. Program Toolkit for Cancer Centers
List of programmatic elements offered
Summary of epidemiological studies from World Health Organization report on radon
Radon data for each MN county
Emphasized free program

9. Cancer Center Recruitment
Worked with our local MN American Cancer Society
Health Systems Account Managers at ACS work directly with a CoC cancer committee member from the accredited cancer center
ACS account managers reached out to all accredited cancer centers
Promoted the radon project in September as a way to meet accreditation standard for next year

10. Accreditation Standard 4.1 – Cancer Prevention Programs
Each calendar year the cancer committee organizes at least one cancer prevention program

11. How Promoted the Project
ACS Managers met with their representative hospital accreditation manager
Gave radon project toolkit
Promoted radon program in bi- monthly hospital newsletter for all MN CoC facilities.

12. Recruitment Procedures
If cancer center interested contacted MDH directly
Coordinated on-site meeting or conference call
Rolling recruitment

13. Thank you, Marc. This is just the type of data that they need
Thank you, Marc!  This is just the type of data that they need.  I’m meeting with my system’s accreditation manager next week to present as a prevention program option for all locations in 2016.  I expect a very positive response and interested group.  I’ll let you know how it goes.  Thanks again! Can you please me an overview of the program and we can go from there in terms of how we might partner to promote this opportunity?  I also compose a bi-monthly hospital newsletter for all of the MN CoC facilities and their account managers – we may be able to include the information in the next issue as well.

14. Project Audience Want to reach out to: Doctors Nurses
All Hospital/Cancer Center Staff
Patients
Community

15. Program Participation
Program started 10/21/15
Presently 9 hospitals and cancer centers participated in the program
8 CoC Accredited
Completed 17 activities

16. Participating Hospitals/Cancer Centers
Abbott Northwestern Hosp
Allina Health
Coborn Cancer Cntr
Cambridge Med Cntr
Douglas Cnty Hosp
District One Hosp
Essentia Health
Health Partners/Park Nicollet
New Ulm Med Cntr
Sanford Health

18. *
* October 28th – Training 100 Essentia Health Staff

20. Radon Test Kit Usage Cancer Centers # Kits Distributed # Kits Used
Percent >=4 pCi/L
Usage Percent
Type of Project
Abbott Northwetsern 72 6
33% 8%
Patient Education/Staff Education
District One 44 12
67%
27%
Staff Education/Community Forum
Douglas County Hospital
183 28
57%
15%
Staff Wellness Events
Essentia Health 93 25
48%
Sanford 45 9
20%
Staff Education
Total
19%

21. Project Sample 1 Abbott Northwestern in Minneapolis
Choose to do a patient education project
Program - July and August 2016
Radon test kits given to patients that come in for a chest x-ray for nodules

22. Project Sample 1 (cont.) Staff educated on radon and test kit usage
MDH distributed education materials and test kits to staff.
Staff developed talking points for patients
40 kits distributed in 2 months
Tracking number returned for analysis

23. Project Sample 2 Sanford Health in Bemidji May 2016
Health fair in morning (health screening event)
Lunch and learn to staff on radon
Partnered with Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

24. Lessons Learned Nurse Practitioners are great advocates
Primary interest is in staff training
Free radon test kits and kit tracking ability is a good recruitment tool
Difficult to assess some activities that cancer centers performed
Looking for a simple easy to read brochure

25. Next Steps Final number test kits analyzed
Evaluation – What we did right/can do better
Survey of 9 participating hospitals/cancer centers
Recruitment strategies for the 24 CoC Hospitals we didn’t reach

26. Future Initiatives Work with non-CoC accredited medical facilities
Advertise radon program to medical centers beyond CoC hospitals
Get a spokesperson – Patient that had lung cancer/oncologist
Continue to work with the American Cancer Society
“Did you test your home for radon” on patient intake form
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