# Outreach

> **NIH NIH U54** · MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $264,733

## Abstract

7. PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 
The overall goal of the Outreach Core of the MSM/TU/UAB CCC Partnership is to implement and evaluate, 
Cancer Care Connect, an innovative enhanced care coordination model for cancer survivors that links health 
system patient navigators (HSPNs) and survivorship care plans (SCPs) with community-based patient 
navigators (CBPNs) to improve satisfaction with care, satisfaction with navigation services, and quality of life 
among cancer survivors. The accomplishment of the study's goal will be facilitated by the Partnership's 
decade-long history of recruiting, training, and engaging lay community health workers/advisors to promote 
age-appropriate cancer screening, healthy lifestyles, and enrollment in cancer clinical trials. The patient 
navigation model used by the Partnership has been successful in the context of cancer prevention, and now it 
will be expanded to cover the entire cancer continuum, from diagnosis through survivorship. To our knowledge, 
this will be the first study to extend patient care coordination from the health system to the community using 
community navigation and SCPs. Following a baseline assessment, patients with a HSPN and SCP will be 
linked to a CBPN, and the impact of the combined health system-based and community-based navigation will 
be evaluated at multiple time points. We anticipate that cancer survivors receiving the Cancer Care Connect 
will increase satisfaction with care, increase satisfaction with navigation services, and improved quality of life.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10007646
- **Project number:** 5U54CA118638-15
- **Recipient organization:** MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Brian M. Rivers
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $264,733
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2005-09-30 → 2021-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10007646

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10007646, Outreach (5U54CA118638-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10007646. Licensed CC0.

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