Cancer Care Initiative: Creation of a Comprehensive Cancer Center at Naval Medical Center Dan Diego

摘要

Many cancer centers today focus on providing comprehensive, multidisciplinary care that involves family and friends in the treatments and support services for cancer patients. Wagner's Chronic Care Model is one such model that can be used to provide this system of care to cancer patients. This study examines the historical, developmental, and current aspects of Naval Medical Center San Diego's cancer center, and it uses Wagner's Chronic Care Model to comparatively evaluate it. Their cancer center demonstrates a model that streamlines processes and is capable of increasing quality and access to care through the use of a patient/family-centered model that provides comprehensive, multiservice cancer care and allows more patients to receive primary and supplementary cancer services within a single location.