Patient & Family Partner Program: Cancer Center Palo Alto

Mission/Vision

The Cancer Center Palo Alto PFAC represents the voices of patients, caregivers, and family members at Stanford Medicine. With the ultimate goal of challenging Stanford to be more patient-centered, this PFAC partners with staff and faculty to improve the care experience for patients and their loved ones from diagnosis, through active treatment and survivorship.

Accomplishments

• Provided feedback on a Patient Experience project focused on tele-health visits 
• Gave suggestions on how to effectively communicate the Advance Care Planning process for patients with advanced cancer
• Contributed to the 300P Renewal and Atrium Infill project by providing feedback from the patient and caregiver perspective
• Provided input on the Workplace Violence reduction initiative
• Reviewed documentation and provided feedback on distress screening documentation for non-English speaking patients
• Contributed artwork to the Cancer Survivorship storyboard wall for the Health Matters virtual event
• Provided input to the Preventative Genomics team on how to effectively role out new programing
• PFAC Development initiatives
  • Recruited three new PFAC members
  • Created a SHC Box account and PFAC Google calendar for South Bay and Palo Alto PFAC collaboration
  • The Consortium of Comprehensive Cancer Centers for Quality Improvement ad hoc participation