Mobile Screening Impact in Idaho Rural Cancer Care
GrantID: 75571
Grant Funding Amount Low: Open
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: Open
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Grant Overview
Idaho's target outcome is a measurable increase in early-stage cancer detections among residents living more than 60 miles from fixed oncology facilities. State cancer registry data from 2021 show that 28 percent of rural cases are diagnosed at stage III or IV, compared with 19 percent statewide. Mobile screening units equipped for low-dose CT and mammography form the delivery mechanism under this funding opportunity.
These outcomes matter because Idaho's population density of 22.2 persons per square mile leaves large eastern and central regions without permanent diagnostic sites. Agricultural and timber workforces, concentrated in counties such as Lemhi and Custer, exhibit lower insurance coverage rates and higher travel barriers. Early detection gains in these cohorts directly affect survival statistics tracked by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Implementation requires universities and medical centers to equip and staff retrofitted vehicles that circulate on fixed quarterly routes covering the seven most remote public health districts. Each unit must maintain chain-of-custody protocols for tissue samples shipped to Boise or Salt Lake City reference laboratories. Post-doctoral teams collect utilization metrics including miles traveled per confirmed diagnosis and time from screening to biopsy result.
Grant applications must include route maps demonstrating coverage of at least 12 counties with populations under 10,000 and baseline screening rates below the state median. Budgets itemize fuel, vehicle maintenance, and temporary staffing drawn from local health districts rather than centralized urban pools. Progress reports compare detection-stage distributions before and after unit deployment using registry-matched identifiers.
Idaho applications differ from those submitted by Washington or Montana because they must quantify extreme rural delivery capacity using frontier county designations and document that mobile routes cannot be substituted by fixed-site expansion within the same budget cycle.
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