House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #86

Supportive Oncology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Robin Hoyle

Organization:

Orlando Regional Healthcare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Supportive Oncology

Date Submitted:

01/21/2000 3:37:14 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Fred Brummer

Service Area:

Statewide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Orange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando

Contact:

Amy Maguire

 

85 W. Miller Street

Contact Phone:

(407) 649-6812

 

 

Orlando, Fl 32806

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is the first outreach program of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.  M.D. Anderson is dedicated to using every available resource to defeat cancer.  Supportive Oncology refers to those aspects of medical care concerned with the physical, psychosocial and spiritual issues faced by persons with cancer, their families, their communities and their health care providers.  This multi-disciplinary approach integrates medical, emotional, spiritual and holistic treatments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

Services that the Supportive Ocology program will provide for cancer patients and their families includes; wellness programs, nutritional and herbal therapy evaluation, pharmacy evaluation, patient assistance for medications, psychosocial care, spititual care, complimentary interventions, complex acute and chronic symptom management, patient education, end of life planning, oncolgy rehabilitation, support care guideline, quality of life evaluation, coordination of services, and outcomes & research studies.  This program assesses and proactively addresses clinical non-medial issues in order to improve the patient's perception of the quality of life.  One of the many goals of the program is to improve medical outcomes to cure and control the advancement of cancer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

To improve quality of life and medical outcomes to cure and control the advancement of cancer.  To provide a coordinated, integrative, interdisciplinary supportive care approach for new and established cancer patients seen at the M.D. Cancer Center Orlando Oncology Program.  By assessing and proactively addressing clinical problems in order to improve the patient's perception of their quality of life and to improve clinical outcomes whether the goal of care is curative, to prolong life or the palliate symptoms.  To go beyond treating the tumor only; to treating the total person experiencing the effects of cancer and its treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$450,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$900,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

Yes

 

 

Agency:

Health, Department Of

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

Volumes of detailed documentation are available upon request.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

No