Services of Cancer Resources & Advocacy
Cancer Resources & Advocacy offers targeted consultations that can provide timely, personalized systems navigation, as well as help to organizations in policy practice areas.
Services to individuals and families include:
- Researching appropriate referrals for specific diagnoses and conditions
- Troubleshooting medical bills and insurance claims
- Assistance in finding or maintaining health insurance
- Preparation of appeals of insurance claim denials
- Specialized attention for children, adults, and seniors
- Help in determining eligibility for public and private resources and programs
- Consultation on education and employment issues
- Medical interpretation and translation
Services to organizations include:
- Patient advocacy consultations
- Grant proposal research and preparation
- Program planning and evaluation
- Research and writing of articles, reports, papers and website content
- Training programs for staff
- Tracking and translating multi-lingual media coverage of relevant issues
- Networking with local, regional, national and international policy venues
- Community outreach and event planning
Specialty areas include:
- Access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services
- Blood and marrow transplantation, donor and patient perspectives
- Services for military members, dependents,and veterans
- Special issues of immigrant, intercultural, and international families
- Overcoming healthcare inequalities
- Medicare enrollee benefits
- Children's services
- Psychosocial support referrals for patients and families
Interpretation and Translation Services
- Medical interpretation for cancer patients, Portuguese-to-English, English-to-Portuguese
- Written translations of Portuguese-to-English, Spanish-to-English
- Training on healthcare interpretation policy issues
- Referrals to language/subject-specific resources
- Fala-se português ~ Se habla español
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