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Dr. Lisa Mathew interviews Dr. Kevin Rank, chief medical officer at MNGI Digestive Health in Minnesota, about the practice’s Links to Care Program, which provides free colonoscopies to uninsured patients across the Twin Cities and earned the National Achievement Award from the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable.
Links to Care works through partnerships with Federally Qualified Health Centers, community health centers where many uninsured patients already receive care, and covers the colonoscopy in full so there is no cost to the patient. MNGI recently increased access by dropping the requirement that a patient first have a positive stool test or a family history of colorectal cancer to qualify. That same focus on access drives culturally specific outreach, including working with the Hmong community, where screening rates lag well behind the state average.
Join Dr. Mathew and Dr. Rank as they explore how closing the gap in screening to prevent cancer can be some of the most rewarding work a physician does, and what it takes for an independent practice to build and sustain a similar program in its community.
Produced by Andrew Sousa and Hayden Margolis for Steadfast Collaborative, LLC
Mixed and mastered by Hayden Margolis
Gastro Broadcast, episode 93, presented by TissueCypher from Castle Biosciences