Work Site Screening

Work site screening is a convenient and efficient way of providing cancer screening to your work force. On site programs save time for employer and employee, reducing costs and time away from the job.

Why should your company offer cancer screening?

Screening may reduce the cost of cancer treatment, since treatment for earlier stage cancers is less costly than that for more advanced disease.

In Los Angeles County in 1999, there were 34,470 new cases of cancer reported, and 13,665 deaths. Estimates of the deaths that could have been avoided through screening range as high as 35%, depending on a variety of assumptions, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Even when employees have full medical coverage, many do not seek annual cancer screening. Educational sessions prior to screening, colleague support, and the convenience and ease convince many people to take advantage of this work place benefit.

At one recent corporate screening, The Elizabeth Center for Cancer for Detection found 10% of the employees screened had positive results for cancer. Finding these cancers early is important for both the health and livelihood of the employee and for the employer, in the form of savings in medical and disability insurance costs.

What's included in the program?

Work site screening is a convenient and efficient way of providing cancer screening to your work force. On site programs save time for employer and employee, reducing costs and time away from the job.

The work site program includes screening examinations for prostate, breast, colorectal, skin and/or oral cancers. Prostate and breast exams are the most frequently performed screening exams because they have the highest incidence among males and females respectively.

The colorectal cancer examination and stool analysis for blood is an important screening procedure for both men and women, for rectal and lower bowel cancer. Pelvic examination with Pap smear is used to screen for cervical cancer. Skin cancer examinations are being performed with increasing frequency because of greater public awareness of the seriousness of skin cancer and melanoma.  

The Elizabeth Center provides a mobile mammography unit featuring an exam and dressing rooms. With this state-of-the-art unit The Center offers mammograms as well as other exams. For male services the employer is asked to provide a room(s) for servicing.  The Center provides examining tables and screens.

The HR/Benefits Department is asked to schedule employee appointments in advance. 

To motivate employees to take advantage of this benefit, The Center offers an education program with outstanding speakers and materials prior to signup.

What are the costs of this program?

With a demographic breakdown of your employee population – age, gender, and ethnicity – The Elizabeth Center for Cancer Detection will supply you with a specific proposal. An employer may wish to pay for all or part of the costs as an employee benefit. If not, we ask the individual employee to pay at the time of screening.  The employee can submit a claim for reimbursement from his or her private insurance (POS and PPO only).

JPL and Parsons are two of the larger companies that have taken advantage of this cost effective employee benefit program.