Letter from the Program Director
Patient Story – Just DEW It!
Website Update
New MOQC Team Member Spotlight
Biannual Summary
Practice Awards
Palliative Radiation Pathways for People on Hospice or Considering Hospice
POQC Update
Tobacco Cessation and Quitline
VitalTalk Application
Health Corner – Food Security and Malnutrition in Oncology Care + Meal Delivery Pilot Update
Do you have a job opening?
Tell us about your job postings
We recognize the importance and challenges associated with finding individuals to join your teams and help provide exceptional care to your patients. The MOQC newsletter can serve as a platform to reach a wider audience. This opportunity extends to all practices participating in our collaborative. If you are interested, submit your job posting details to moqc@moqc.org and we can communicate with you about whether a newsletter will be sent out within an appropriate timeframe for you.
Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) Initiative Update
The MOQC PROs pilot is currently underway this summer with Munson Healthcare Cowell Family Cancer Center, Sparrow Herbert-Herman Cancer Center, and Hematology Oncology Consultants. We are scheduling additional sites for the fall and winter of 2023/2024. If your site is ready to join us for PROs collection, please contact us at moqc@moqc.org.
Highlighted Resource: Hospice and Oncology Practice Communication
To help improve communication between oncology practices and hospices, MOQC would like to highlight the following customizable letter templates available on our website:
Hospice Patient Enrollment Notification
Hospice Patient Death Notification
To download the letters, please go to https://moqc.org/resources/hospice-enrollment/
Why don’t we have a virtual option for our in-person meetings?
We are often asked whether someone can join our in-person meetings online. Since the pandemic, we’ve all become accustomed to virtual meetings, and virtual meetings decrease travel time and time away from work.
There are four equally important reasons we do not have a virtual option for our in-person meetings.
- Engagement during hybrid meetings plummets
- The cost of running hybrid meetings (and doing it well) is outside our budget
- We are evaluated by BCBSM (our sponsor) on our engagement at one in-person meeting per year
- The option for a virtual meeting leads to last-minute changes in people’s intention to attend in-person. (That is, people may respond that they will be attending in person and then, because virtual attendance is offered, they may switch to virtual. This is an often-seen phenomenon that leads to waste of food, meeting space, and other resources.)
We hope this explanation is helpful.
