The Jewish Hospital - Mercy Health Earns ACR Accreditation for Breast MRI
(CINCINNATI; August 9, 2012) — Following a recent review, The American College of Radiology (ACR) has awarded The Jewish Hospital – Mercy Health a three-year term of accreditation in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI of the breast offers valuable information about many breast conditions that other imaging tools, such as mammography or ultrasound, may not provide. The Jewish Hospital joins Mercy Health – Anderson Hospital in earning this prestigious accreditation.
The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. ACR awards it only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards after a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. ACR assesses image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures and quality assurance programs during its review. The findings go to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report they can use for continuous practice improvement.
“Our dedicated MRI technologists and radiologists provide terrific care to our patients and referring physicians,” says Becky Allen, Director of Imaging Services at The Jewish Hospital. “This accreditation confirms publicly our ongoing commitment to being Cincinnati’s breast care leader."
The ACR is a national professional organization serving more than 34,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.
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