Using FastTrack to implement an academic medical center and community health center collaborative for cancer care delivery

Implementation lessons
• The formation of a clinical outreach program between an academic medical center and a community health center is achievable with specific shared common goals, including deliverable, patient-centered outcomes that are relevant to all the institutions.
• The creation of the program requires commitment from participating institutions, and must evolve out of need, as determined by local incidence and mortality data.
• The implementation of the program requires integration of both the administrative as well as the clinical staff prospectively, with specific emphasis on structural impediments to patient access.