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Proje ject ECHO and Cancer Patient Navigators in Maine

NNECOS Financial Advocacy and Navigation Symposium October 18, 2019

Maine Cancer Foundation

• Funder and convener
• Public charity
• Backbone and funding support for Maine’s Impact Cancer Network –

Maine’s statewide cancer coalition

Maine Patient Navigator Landscape

• Maine navigators serve:
• Rural Mainers
• New Mainers
• Senior Mainers
• Migrant workers
• Types of navigators
• Community health workers
• Clinical navigators
• Financial advocates

Maine San Diego Population 1.3 Million 1.4 Million Area 35,385 sq miles 372 sq miles # of Moose 60-70,000

2018 MCF Patient Navigator Summit

• September 20, 2018
• 60 attendees met in Augusta
• Patient navigators expressed strong desire

to stay connected statewide

• Project ECHO model introduced as

a possible tool

Project ECHO

• Extension. For Community. Healthcare. Outcomes.
• Created in 2003
• Currently 650 Project ECHOs in 37+ countries
• Connects groups of providers with specialists in collaborative sessions
• Sessions included didactic component as well as case based learning
• Empowers providers to provide better care to more people where they live
• https://echo.unm.edu/

Project ECHO – Getting Started

• MD Anderson recognized as a Project ECHO
• ncology superhub
• Provide required training, instruction, and support
• MD Anderson is 1 of 14 Superhubs worldwide

and the first focused on oncology

• Training
• 1.5 days
• Offered twice a year
• Houston, TX
• Following training, become recognized Project

ECHO hub

Project ECHO Requirements

• Training and certification for hub organization
• Staffing at hub to manage technology and facilitate

sessions

• Zoom
• Videoconferencing equipment
• Spoke sites
• Collaborative Enthusiasm!

MCF’s Cancer Patient Navigator ECHO

• Launched in May 2019
• MCF serves as hub
• Sessions held 1x/mo on

same day at same time

MCF Project ECHO Monthly Topics

• Navigation work flows
• Financial Toxicity
• Transportation
• Prevention and Screening
• Palliative Care
• Survivorship
• Immunotherapy
• Metrics
• Genetics

Evaluation

• Progress Measurement
• Attendance
• Pre-Assessment
• Post-Assessment
• Final Evaluation
• Incentives
• Support from Project ECHO

Superhub and ECHO colleagues

New York State Health Foundation Evaluation Tool

MCF Project ECHO Plus/Deltas

• Successes
• Consistent attendance (avg. 20 spokes per session)
• Positive feedback via surveys
• Navigators recruiting colleagues
• Maine navigators coming together for shared learning
• Challenges
• Diverse navigator audience
• Topics are of interest but not practiced by all navigators attending session
• Difficulty recruiting case studies
• Facilitator is not a patient navigator

MCF Project ECHO Future

• Patient Navigator ECHO
• Provide opportunities for navigators to come together in person
• MCF staff travel to spoke sites for each session
• Ensure topics are relevant for navigators
• In Maine
• Fund additional Project ECHO sites
• Northern New England Project ECHO

MCF Project ECHO Contacts

• Aysha Sheikh, Director of Programming, Maine Cancer Foundation,

aysha@mainecancer.org

• Heather Drake, Program Manager, Maine Cancer Foundation,

heather@mainecancer.org

• Katelyn Michaud, Program Manager, Maine Cancer Foundation,

katelyn@mainecancer.org.

• To learn more about how to become a Project ECHO partner with MD Anderson

Cancer Center: https://www.mdanderson.org/education-training/global-

• utreach/project-echo.html

NNECOS Patient Navigator Resources

• New Patient Navigator Resources Page

http://nnecos.org/patient-navigation-resources

• NNECOS will regularly update
• Please send resources to:

Lori Aubrey, NNECOS Executive Director laubrey@nnecos.org