University Hospitals Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence+

What is a Center of Excellence+?

At UH, we define Center of Excellence+ (COE+) as a program established to supply an exceptionally high concentration of expertise and related resources centered on a particular area of medicine. A COE+ strives for value, optimal clinical outcomes, a positive patient experience, and lower costs for both patients and employers. Medical appropriateness criteria is utilized to avoid unnecessary testing and treatment. This ensures UH patients are receiving the right care at the right time, therefore cutting out unnecessary costs, and providing exceptional quality. Medical appropriateness criteria are utilized to avoid unnecessary testing and treatment. This ensures UH patients are receiving the right care at the right time, therefore cutting out unnecessary costs and providing exceptional quality.

The Prostate Cancer COE+ program team provides concierge compassionate care to find the best treatment plan for you. All aspects of your medical journey are managed by the team to minimize downtime and optimize outcomes.

Our staff will:

• Schedule all required preoperative appointments and diagnostic tests.
• Provide each patient with a single point of contact for highly personalized care from evaluation to surgery or radiation oncology treatments.
• Facilitate minimal wait times between initial evaluation and procedures.
• Ensure efficiency with staff expertise and highly skilled clinicians while aligning providers with best practices to promote patient safety.

Bundled Package

All the services offered through University Hospitals’ Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence+ are bundled together to be paid at a single rate. This approach promotes efficiency and best practices from all caregivers involved as they work together to provide the highest quality patient care while staying within a price point. Program navigators provide concierge-style support, coordinating all specialist appointments and ancillary services and accompanying patients to these appointments.

The UH Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence+ bundled package includes initial evaluation and ONE of the treatment pathways, dependent upon surgeon recommendation:

Evaluation

• Surgeon visit
• Biparametric MRI
• Perineal prostate biopsy

Treatment – Radiation

• Rectal spacer and fiducials
• CT
• MRI (if not previously done)
• 5 SBRT outpatient sessions

Treatment – Surgery

• Pre-admission testing
• Pre-op urology NP visit with labs
• Surgery charges for the following:
  • Hospital
  • Surgeon
  • Anesthesia
• 1-week post-surgical NP visit
• 1-month post-surgical surgeon visit

Meet the Team

 

Angela Jia, MD, PhD

Radiation Oncology

• Assistant Professor, CWRU School of Medicine

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Lee Ponsky, MD

• Director, Urologic Oncology Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center
• Chair, Department of Urology, UH Cleveland Medical Center
• Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
• Leo and Charlotte Goldberg Chair in Advanced Surgical Therapies, University Hospitals
• Master Clinician in Urologic Oncology, University Hospitals

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Jonathan Shoag, MD

• Associate Professor of Urology, CWRU School of Medicine

 

Daniel Spratt, MD

• Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, UH Cleveland Medical Center
• Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
• Vincent K. Smith Chair in Radiation Oncology, UH Seidman Cancer Center

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Randy Vince, MD

• Director of Minority Men’s Health at the UH Cutler Center for Men
• Assistant professor of Urology at Case Western Reserve University

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Tyler Weisent, CNP

• NP – Family – American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

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