Are You Ready?
If you can check all of the following statements, you may be ready to apply for CEO Cancer Gold Standard accreditation.
Pillar 1: Health Education and Navigation
- We ensure employees can understand, access and navigate health resources to enable and appropriate behavior and cancer prevention, screening, clinical trials, quality care, survivor ship and well-being.
We promote employee engagement and participation in healthy workplace initiatives.
We ensure health education and navigation communications and resources are sensitive to the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting different employee populations.
Pillar 2: Prevention and Early Detection
Tobacco & Vape-Free Policy and Cessation Support
Our policy is specifically worded to be tobacco & vape free rather than smoke-free.
Our policy prohibits all forms of tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and any others), including smokeless tobacco (chew, snuff, twist, and any others).
Our policy prohibits e-cigarettes and all other forms of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).
Our policy is in place and applies to everyone at all of our U.S. workplaces covered by this application, including, but not limited to: employees, temporary workers, contractors, trainees, visitors.
We cover, at either no cost or at a reasonable cost-sharing level, FDA-approved evidence-based tobacco-cessation treatments including prescription (Rx) and non-prescription over-the-counter (OTC) products.
Nutrition, Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
We are committed to helping our employees make healthy food choices, be physically active and to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Vaccines
We cover FDA-approved and CDC-recommended vaccines (currently Gardasil, also known as Gardasil 9) against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), for both females and males through age 45.
We cover FDA-approved and CDC-recommended vaccines against Hepatitis B virus (HBV) – for the prevention of chronic Hepatitis B infection, which can lead to liver cancer.
Cancer Screening
We provide coverage for evidence-based cancer screening exams to detect certain cancers at an early stage, when management or treatment has the best chance for a positive outcome.
We offer specific programs, services and/or have policies in place to facilitate appropriate cancer screenings.
Pillar 3: Advancing Treatment
We offer access to participation in cancer clinical trials.
Our health benefit plans provide access to cancer treatment at Commission on Cancer-accredited programs and/or National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers.
Pillar 4: Survivorship
Our workplace culture recognizes the needs of employees who are cancer survivors themselves or who are family members/caregivers of cancer survivors.
The individual will continue to be covered by their current plan, and will not be denied coverage or have new limits placed on their coverage based on their participation in a cancer clinical trial.
Pillar 5: Well-Being
Our workplace culture recognizes the need for a holistic approach to health and well-being.
We have taken steps to improve employee well-being beyond physical health and address employee financial, environmental, and mental/emotional health, as well as developing and supporting an individual’s sense of purpose and community.