Community Hospital Receives ACR Accreditation
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FAIRFAX in FAIRFAX, MISSOURI has been awarded a three-year term
of accreditation in MAMMOGRAPHY as the result of a recent survey by the American
College of Radiology.
The ACR, headquartered in Reston, Va., awards accreditation
to facilities for the achievement of high practice standards after a per-review
evaluation of the practice. Evaluations are conducted by board-certified physicians
and medical physicists who are experts in the field. They assess the qualifications
of the personnel and the adequacy of facility equipment. The surveyors report their
findings to the ACR’s Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the
practice with a comprehensive report.
The ACR is a national organization serving
more than 32,000 diagnostic-interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists,
and nuclear medicine and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice
of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive health
care services.