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Baptist Health Receives Two Breast Imaging Honors

Baptist Health Receives Two Breast Imaging Honors
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
May. 27, 2020 | PADUCAH
By West Kentucky Star Staff May. 27, 2020 | 02:31 PM | PADUCAH
Baptist Health Paducah has received two breast-imaging honors this month. 

The first of which is a three-year accreditation in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the second being a designation as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. Both honors were awarded by the American College of Radiology. 

The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. The breast MRI provides important information about numerous breast conditions that other imaging modalities, like mammography or ultrasounds, may not pick up on. 

The accreditation is awarded by board-certified physicians and medical physicists, who are experts in the field. It is awarded to facilities that meet ACR "Practice Parameters and Technical Standards" after a peer review evaluation. 

The peer-review evaluations, which are conducted in each breast imaging modality by board-certified physicians and medical physicists, determined that Baptist Health Paducah has achieved a high practice standard in image quality, personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs. 

The ACR, which was founded in 1924, is a medical society that is dedicated to serving their patients and society as a whole by empowering radiology professionals to advance the practice, science, and professions of radiological care. The college serves more than 37,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs that focus on the practice of medical imagine and radiation oncology, and the delivery of comprehensive health care services. 

You can learn more about the American College of Radiology at the link below.

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