The Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute

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Patient Navigation Crosses the Pond—Join Team Patient Navigation

Harlem, NY, March 29, 2011 — Just this month, the United Kingdom's House of Commons embraced patient navigation by launching the HP Freeman Patient Navigation program, enabling citizens of the UK to benefit from barrier-free diagnosis, treatment, and care for chronic diseases. Hospitals, community health centers, and government agencies are all beginning to recognize that reducing barriers and disparities in access to necessary resources and care is critical to saving lives.

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HP Freeman PNI Offers Online Educational Program

Harlem, NY, October 18, 2010 — The Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute is accepting applications for its new online educational program designed to provide convenient, self-paced instruction to those interested in learning and deploying its signature patient navigation model. The concept of patient navigation was founded and pioneered by Harold P. Freeman in 1990 for the purpose of eliminating barriers to timely cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care. It has since expanded to include the timely movement of an individual across the entire health care continuum from prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and supportive and end-of-life care for cancer, in addition to other chronic diseases. The HP Freeman Patient Navigation Model has become the gold standard for employers of patient navigators.

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Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute Completes First Trainings and Certifications

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention Are the First to Be Certified

NEW YORK, April 24, 2008 — The Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute today announced that representatives from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention were amongst the first to be certified and representatives from the Cleveland Clinic were the first to be trained in patient navigation. The Institute offers the only certification program that exists in patient navigation training.

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Amgen Foundation

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