Mississippi Breast and Cervical Cancer Program - Health Systems Surveyor/Evidence-Based Intervention Consultant

The Guide to Community Preventive Services has established the following EBIs to increase breast and cervical cancer screening: client reminders, reducing structural barriers, provider assessment and feedback, provider reminder and recall systems, engaging community health workers, small media, group education, and one-on-one education. The Guide recommends use of multi-component EBIs that combine strategies which increase community demand for and access to cancer screening. The consultant will: Identify at least one individual within each partnering health system to serve as a champion for EBI implementation efforts and ensure a cancer screening policy is in place. Conduct quality assurance and quality improvement (QA/QI) activities that support delivery of timely and appropriate screening and diagnostic services by partnering with MS-BCCP-screening clinics to conduct a comprehensive assessment and audits of their health care delivery system. Assess the clinic's patient process flow, screening practices, validate the quality of breast and cervical cancer screening data in electronic health record (EHR) or other data systems, identify established and needed EBIs in each clinic and select appropriate interventions for implementation. Provide clinic partners with technical assistance (TA) to support EBI implementation, adaptation, and data monitoring, including reporting of CDC-required clinic-level data. Engage organizations with appropriate expertise to assist in providing TA to clinics (e.g., expertise in clinic workflow or process mapping, assessing clinic readiness to implement EBIs, EBI adaptation and implementation, quality improvement, use of EHR data for population management, and data management). Engage organizations that demonstrate expertise in and access to the identified populations that are disproportionately burdened by breast and cervical cancer; ideally these organizations should be in the communities where women are being served. Collect and report clinic-level data on clinic characteristics, screening rates, and EBI implementation using the CDC-required platform (B&C BARS). Provide ongoing communication with key stakeholders of the health systems to reinforce implementation expectations, assess progress, collect aggregated data, provide feedback, and encourage continuous quality improvement strategies. This includes email, phone calls, virtual, and in-person visits. Provide semi-annual or annual presentations to the MS-BCCP Stakeholder Group and health systems partners on assessment and performance of health systems implementing EBIs and receiving consultation.