CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – University of Virginia Cancer Center is partnering with seven community health centers to get more Virginians screened for cancer. UVA Health is working with these Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) – federally funded nonprofits that provide care in medically underserved areas – to launch the Virginia FQHC Cancer Screening Collaborative. Partners in the collaborative over the next two years include Blue Ridge Medical Center, Central Virginia Health Services, Stone Mountain Health Services, Tri-Area Community Health,Community Health Center of the New River Valley, Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems, and Connect Health + Wellness in Martinsville.

UVA Cancer Center associate director Wendy Cohn, Phd, says, “Part of being a comprehensive cancer center is not just doing out excellent research and treating cancer patients, but also reaching out and serving the community in the best way we can.”

She says UVA has outreach people working in different parts of the state who offer help to overcoming various barriers in communities, and these partners “are very community centered”. For the most part, she says they’re talking about breast, cervical, colorectal, and lung cancers screenings.

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