工口实验室

The 工口实验室 (ACS) believes patient navigation is critical to improving access to care for everyone. Navigation can remove barriers and improve access to care through patient-centered support from screening through survivorship.

ACS leads and funds efforts to build navigation programs, promotes public policy to support navigation, and studies the role and benefits of navigation both in the United States and globally.

ACS CARES? (Community Access to Resources, Education, and Support) connects people with cancer and their caregivers to personalized support to meet their unique needs when and where they need it most. Whether through the ACS CARES app or in-person, ACS CARES equips people facing cancer with curated content, programs, and services, and one-on-one support.  

provides patient navigation training, credentialing, and implementation support for the professional patient navigation workforce and oncology practices.

shares research and best practices that support patient navigation, helps define navigator roles, and provides resources to help cancer navigation programs continue.

ACS Global BEACON (Building Expertise, Advocacy, and Capacity for Oncology Navigation) Initiative provides training, support, and grants for patient navigation in low- and middle–income countries, reaching over 50 organizations from more than 30 countries.

ACS Global SPARK (Supporting Patient Navigation Adoption, Replication, and Knowledge Exchange) Initiative creates an enabling environment to integrate patient navigation as a national standard of cancer care in Indonesia, Kenya, and Nigeria and with the additional aim of developing program models that can be replicated in other countries around the world.

ACS convenes global partners to frame, assess, and address challenges in global patient navigation that no single organization can solve alone to expand the reach, quality, and sustainability of global patient navigation.

policy priorities include supporting with a multi-year campaign to get Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance coverage and payment for patient navigators.

ACS Health Equity Ambassadors work in their local communities to provide education on cancer prevention and early detection for African American/Black, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, and rural populations.