Douglas Flora, Executive Medical Director of Yung Family Cancer Center at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, President-Elect of the Association of Cancer Care Centers, and Editor in Chief of AI in Precision Oncology, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“The will has never been the problem.
Oncologists want their patients’ depression treated. Social workers want to practice at the top of their licensure. Psychiatrists want integration, not isolation. Administrators want models that scale.
Everyone pushing. Separately. Against walls that don’t move.
Silos aren’t built by people who don’t care. They’re built by systems that never learned to coordinate caring.
What breaks them down isn’t more effort. It’s shared architecture. Common language. A room where the conversations can actually happen.This is what excites me about the work Monique Marino and Krista Nelson have captured here—and about where ACCC is heading. Hundreds of cancer care professionals are leaning in. Not just content. Convening.
The Collaborative Care Model matters. But so does this: people who’ve been solving the same problems in parallel are finally solving them together.
Momentum builds when isolated intention becomes collective action.
We’re building.”
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