THOMPSON CANCER SURVIVAL CTR FOUNDATION
1915 White Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916 www.tcscfoundation.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Thompson Cancer Survival Center Foundation provides consistent charitable support to Thompson Cancer Survival Center to ensure accessible cancer treatment programs for all people throughout the region regardless of their ability to pay.

To support Thompson Cancer Survival Center's programs and services through charitable gifts.

Multidisciplinary Operating Grant: The Foundation provides grant support for the operations of the Multidisciplinary Treatment Department of the Thompson Cancer Survival Center. Multidisciplinary treatment facilitates specialty physicians discussing treatment options based on the individuality of the patient's circumstances. A multidisciplinary nurse navigator schedules a private consultation for each patient with the members of the specialty team. This approach affords the opportunity for the physician to relate one-on-one with the oncology patient and explain treatment choices in layman's terms. Patients in need of this support come from various Covenant Health facilities, as well as outside facilities. Nurse navigators and a department assistant currently organize, oversee, summarize, and provide follow-up for 4 to 5 multidisciplinary cancer conferences per week. In 2019, 864 patients were presented at multidisciplinary conferences, with 146 of those patients being seen in our multidisciplinary clinics where a nurse navigator is in attendance with each patient to take notes, educate, offer support to patients and families, and become their liaison between all physicians and services.Thompson Cancer Survival Center's nurse navigators assist oncology patients according to their needs and help them overcome multiple barriers to healthcare. Five new nurse navigators were added to the program in 2019. Common barriers include financial, educational, transportation, logistical, linguistic, cultural, and emotional factors, as well as the complicated health care system in general. Our navigators guide patients to sources of financial support, help complete paperwork, educate patients on diagnoses and medical procedures, arrange and coordinate appointments with multiple providers, help with transportation, assist with housing, communicate with providers about unique patient needs, ensure medical records arrive at scheduled appointments, direct patients to support groups or counseling services, and attend patient appointments for support. Working with patients having all solid tumor cancer types, they work diligently to meet the needs of our patients and families. There were 15,667 oncology patient education encounters in 2019, and 949 patients were navigated with complicated issues. For those patients being followed by navigators that have curative treatment, over 100 Survivorship Care Plans were completed by nurse navigators and discussed with patients in 2019.Nurse navigators also led the Low Dose CT Lung Screening Program for Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and Fort Sanders West. There were 754 total patients scheduled for screenings in 2019. Seventy-nine patients were found to have an abnormal result. All Low Dose CT patients are followed by the multidisciplinary department.

Social Services Operating Grant:The Foundation provides grant support for the operations of the Social Services Department of the Thompson Cancer Survival Center. The Social Services Department receives referrals from Covenant Health facilities when oncology patients are identified that could benefit from the services provided by this department. In 2019, Social Services supported 1,618 new patient referrals and 4,743 follow-up patients. Additionally, there were 811 new patients referred for nutritional counseling and education and 2,914 follow-up patients were also supported. Healing Touch is another service provided by the Social Services Department. Healing Touch offers a space for patients to relax and escape from the stress of cancer treatment. Patients are seen for pain management and anxiety and find the treatment relaxing and helpful. Healing Touch served 95 patients with 570 visit in 2019. The Social Services Department also offers Genetic Counseling services including breast cancer and hereditary cancer risk assessments. In 2019, the Genetics Clinic provided services for 533 new patients who were in need of counseling, including 165 who pursued genetic testing. Whether patients tested positive or negative for a hereditary cancer syndrome, decided not to pursue testing, or were not appropriate candidates for testing, they and their families were able to make informed decisions regarding their medical management based on the genetic counseling they received.

Clinical Trials Operating Grant:The Foundation provides a grant to the Thompson Cancer Survival Center ("TCSC") for the operation of its Clinical Trials program. Since the opening of TCSC in 1988, the Clinical Trials Department has enrolled 2,366 patients in clinical trials. The TCSC Clinical Trials Department currently has 11 active treatment patients, 11 patients actively enrolled in research studies, and 135 patients in follow-up studies. In 2019, TCSC Clinical Trials Department enrolled 4 patients to oncology clinical trials. To help with screening efforts, Research Nurse Coordinators are assigned to specific physician schedules for screening and to specific locations for coverage, including Thompson Oncology Group's Oak Ridge, Sevierville, West Knoxville, Downtown Knoxville, and Lenoir City clinics. Opening new studies increases referrals locally and regionally and gives current patients the ability to be treated with state-of-the-art care in their own community. Involvement in prevention, treatment, and data and specimen collection trials offers an improved means of health strategies for individuals at risk for certain cancers, as well as access to proven standard cancer treatments and new, developing cutting edge therapies for those diagnosed with cancer.

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