Here are five takeaways:
1. Hospital officials said the motivator for the nomination is early intervention in a region of the United States impacted by limited healthcare access, poverty and other factors putting the people living in it at high risk.
2. A decade ago, Terrell County, Ga., had the highest colorectal cancer death rate in the nation at 47.5 percent and Albany Area Primary Healthcare was the only medical provider in the entire county.
3. Phoebe Putney joined Albany Area Primary Healthcare, the state health department and several other regional hospitals and agencies to form what is now known as the Cancer Coalition of South Georgia to address the comprehensive cancer control needs of the region.
4. According to National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable research and projections, reaching a screening rate of 80 percent in Phoebe’s service area would save an estimated 15 lives per year between now and 2030.
5. The other National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable honorees include:
- Coal Country Community Health Centers, Beulah, N.D.
- Tina Kiser Cancer Concern Coalition, Cambridge, Ohio
- Premier Medical Associates, Monroeville, Pa.
- South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority, Columbia
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