White Plains, NY (July 6, 2016) – TWhite Plains Hospital has received the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ accreditation for a second consecutive year. The award recognizes the Hospital’s ongoing effort to reduce cancer risks by cultivating the health and wellness of its employees and their families.
To receive a Gold Standard accreditation, an employer must establish programs to reduce cancer risk in five critical areas. 1.) Implementing policies and programs to reduce the risk of cancer by creating a tobacco free workplace and promoting a physical activities and nutrition. 2.) Ensuring that employees have an easily accessible way of receiving cancer screenings at no cost or a reasonable cost-sharing option. 3.) Providing health insurance benefits that allow individuals to participate in cancer clinical trials. 4.) Sustaining a workplace culture that recognizes the needs of cancer survivors. 5.) Promoting health education that provides employees with information on cancer research studies and clinical trials.
The Hospital has initiated several employee wellness and cancer prevention initiatives in recent months, including providing incentives for employees to receive recommended health screenings for breast and prostate cancer; and signing on to the “80% by 2018” campaign- a commitment to ensure that 80% of adults age 50 and older are screened for colorectal cancer.
“A core part of our mission is not only to care for patients when they are sick, but to care for the entire community, including our valued and exceptional employees,” said Hospital President and CEO Susan Fox. “As such, we are deeply committed to providing the resources for our staff and their family members to take the best possible care of themselves and be active participants in their own health.”
The CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a nonprofit organization of CEOs, founded by former President George H.W. Bush, developed and administers the Gold Standard, an employee wellness framework based on taking concrete actions in five key areas to address cancer in the workplace. Nearly 200 private, nonprofit and government employers in a wide range of occupational categories have earned Gold Standard accreditation, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a number of NCI-designated cancer centers.
About White Plains Hospital
About White Plains Hospital (WPH) is a 292-bed not-for-profit health care organization with the primary mission of providing exceptional acute and preventive medical care to all people who live in, work in or visit Westchester County and its surrounding areas. Centers of Excellence include the Center for Cancer Care, The William & Sylvia Silberstein Neonatal & Maternity Center and The Ruth and Jerome A. Siegel Stroke Center. The Hospital’s Flanzer Emergency Department is the busiest in Westchester County, seeing nearly 57,000 visits a year. White Plains Hospital performs lifesaving emergency and elective angioplasty in its Joan and Alan Herfort, M.D. Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Marie Promuto Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. White Plains Hospital also has outpatient medical facilities in Armonk and New Rochelle. The Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and earned its recognition as a Top Performer for Key Quality Measures® in 2015 and 2013. The Hospital is also an eleven-time winner of the Consumer Choice Award, an honor given to the nation’s top hospitals by the National Research Corporation, and received Magnet® designation in 2012 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). In 2014 and 2016, White Plains Hospital received the Outstanding Patient Experience Award from Healthgrades®, given to only 10% of hospitals nationwide. White Plains Hospital is a proud member of the Montefiore Health System.
For additional information, visit http://www.wphospital.org.
About The CEO Roundtable on Cancer
The CEO Roundtable on Cancer was founded in 2001, when former President George H.W. Bush challenged a group of executives to "do something bold and venturesome about cancer within your own corporate families." The CEOs responded by creating and encouraging the widespread adoption of the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ which calls for organizations to evaluate their health benefits and workplace culture and take extensive, concrete actions in five key areas of health and wellness to address cancer in the workplace. For more information on the CEO Cancer Gold Standard and the free web-based accreditation process, please visit http://www.CancerGoldStandard.org.