The Adults With Preventive Care Needs Guide provides step-by-step guidance to help Community Health Centers and other primary care practices improve person-centered, population-based preventive care. It focuses on increasing colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer screening rates through evidence-based clinical guidelines and practical strategies for screening protocols, mammography, colorectal screening such as FIT and colonoscopy, cervical cytology, and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing.
The guide includes foundational, going deeper, and on the horizon activities addressing multidisciplinary care teams, care gap reports and registries, standing orders, proactive patient outreach, pre-visit planning, health-related social needs screening, culturally appropriate patient education, shared decision-making, screening follow-up, care coordination, community partnerships, referral pathways, care management, HPV self-sampling, and customized educational materials.
It also includes guidance on quality measurement, health equity, social health, behavioral health integration, trauma-informed care, health information technology, and ongoing workflow improvement.