American College of Radiology Grants Full 3-Year Accreditation to QMG Radiation Oncology Program

Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG) Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gy has been award­ed a full three-year term of accred­i­ta­tion by the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Radi­ol­o­gy (ACR).

“Achiev­ing such accred­i­ta­tion from the ACR is no easy task. The review process entails thor­ough audits by physi­cians and physi­cists board cer­ti­fied in Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gy. The audits include patient care records, staffing, facil­i­ty design, equip­ment capa­bil­i­ties, qual­i­ty assur­ance pro­ce­dures, oper­at­ing poli­cies, and safe­ty pro­ce­dures,” stat­ed QMG Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gist Dr. Michael Fallon.

“The find­ings of the audi­tors are then pre­sent­ed to the Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gy Prac­tice Accred­i­ta­tion (ROPA) Com­mit­tee, which can issue one of three deci­sions: 1) denial of accred­i­ta­tion; 2) one-year accred­i­ta­tion with review (pend­ing imple­men­ta­tion of cor­rec­tive action plans); 3) full three-year accred­i­ta­tion. We received a full three-year accred­i­ta­tion with no call for sub­mis­sion of any cor­rec­tive action plans. This is an excep­tion­al accred­i­ta­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly for a new ser­vice line,” said Dr. Fallon.

The Amer­i­can Col­lege of Radi­ol­o­gy (ACR) is the nation’s old­est and most wide­ly accept­ed radi­a­tion oncol­o­gy accred­it­ing body, with more than 700 accred­it­ed sites and 30+ years’ of accred­i­ta­tion expe­ri­ence. Rec­og­nized as the pre­mier nation­al pro­fes­sion­al orga­ni­za­tion of radi­ol­o­gists and radi­a­tion oncol­o­gists, the ACR rep­re­sents the col­lec­tive exper­tise of more than 36,000 diagnostic/​interventional radi­ol­o­gists, radi­a­tion oncol­o­gists, nuclear med­i­cine physi­cians, and med­ical physi­cists. The ACR pro­vides a wide range of pro­fes­sion­al and edu­ca­tion­al resources with pro­grams focus­ing on the prac­tice of med­ical imag­ing and radi­a­tion oncol­o­gy and the deliv­ery of com­pre­hen­sive health care ser­vices. The ACR seal of accred­i­ta­tion is emblem­at­ic of achiev­ing the high­est stan­dards of qual­i­ty care estab­lished by the ACR. It is award­ed only to facil­i­ties that com­ply with spe­cif­ic ACR Prac­tice Guide­lines and Tech­ni­cal Stan­dards devel­oped by board-cer­ti­fied radi­a­tion oncol­o­gists and med­ical physi­cists who are experts in the field of Radi­a­tion Medicine.

Since 1981, Quin­cy Med­ical Group has pro­vid­ed can­cer care to the Greater Quin­cy region. In 2020, QMG expand­ed its health­care port­fo­lio to include Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gy. With a staff of Board-cer­ti­fied Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gist, Med­ical Physi­cist, Med­ical Dosimetrist, reg­is­tered nurs­es and licensed ther­a­pists, QMG Radi­a­tion Oncol­o­gy offers 3‑Dimensional Con­for­mal, Inten­si­ty Mod­u­lat­ed, and Image Guid­ed Radio­ther­a­py along with Stereo­tac­tic Body Radio­ther­a­py, and, in con­junc­tion with Neu­ro­surgery, Stereo­tac­tic Radio­surgery. The QMG Can­cer Insti­tute is locat­ed at 3301 Broad­way in Quincy.

To learn more about the QMG Can­cer Insti­tute, vis­it quin​cymed​group​.com/​c​ancer.