CEO Gold Standard Award
The CEO Cancer Gold Standard is a series of cancer-related recommendations designed to reduce the risk for cancer, detect it early and ensure access to the
best-available care if a diagnosis of cancer becomes a reality. The CEO Cancer Gold Standard addresses these three goals by focusing on five critical areas, known as the "five pillars":
The University of North Dakota has received this award status in: 2008 & 2009
Pillar #1: Tobacco Use
Establish and enforce tobacco-free worksite policies.
Ensure that health benefit plans include coverage at no cost for evidence-based tobacco treatments (counseling and medications).
Establish workplace-based tobacco cessation initiatives
Pillar #2: Diet and Nutrition
Sustain a culture that supports healthy food choices.
Provide access to nutrition/weight control programs.
Pillar #3: Physical Activity
Sustain a culture that promotes physical activity.
Demonstrate commitment to eliminating barriers to active lifestyles.
Pillar #4: Prevention, Screening and Early Detection
Sustain a culture that promotes appropriate cancer-screening behaviors.
Ensure that health benefit plans include cancer-screening provisions that adhere to the American Cancer Society (ACS) Guidelines or the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Guidelines.
Offer health benefit plans that eliminate cost as a barrier to accessing preventive/screening tests and exams, including all vaccines approved by the FDA, and recommended by the CDC, for the prevention of cancer.
Pillar #5: Access to Quality Treatment and Clinical Trials
Provide education and promotion of cancer clinical trials.
Offer health benefit plans that eliminate cost as a barrier to accessing cancer clinical trials
Ensure that health benefit plans provide access to cancer care at Commission on Cancer-approved facilities and/or NCI-approved cancer centers.