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February 19, 2008
The Marquette Medical Clinic – Escanaba has been awarded accreditation in Mammography from the American College of Radiology
The Marquette Medical Clinic – Escanaba, a service of Marquette General Health System, has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in Mammography from the American College of Radiology.
To earn ACR accreditation, 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 the facility equipment. The surveyors report their findings to the ACR’s Committee on Accreditation, which provides the practice with a comprehensive report.
The ACR’s Mammography Accreditation Program has been helping facilities improve the quality of mammography through peer review and professional feedback since 1987. Initially conceived as a voluntary program, accreditation became mandatory when the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 required all U.S. mammography facilities to become accredited and certified by October 1, 1994. Currently, the ACR is the largest of four accrediting bodies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, accrediting 12,729 units at 8,325 facilities by October 1, 2004.
ACR accreditation is a voluntary process that seeks recognition for high practices.
The Marquette Medical Clinic – Escanaba is located at 2500 7th Ave. South, Escanaba, Mich. For more information about Mammographic Imaging Services at the Marquette Medical Clinic - Escanaba, please contact the Radiology Department at Doctors Park at (906) 786-1839.
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