Quincy Medical Group Receives National Accreditation for PET/CT Services

April 12, 2021

QUIN­CY, IL – Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG) has been award­ed accred­i­ta­tion from the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Radi­ol­o­gy (ACR) for PET/CT ser­vices at the QMG Can­cer Institute.

The QMG Can­cer Insti­tute is the only local facil­i­ty to pro­vide PET/CT imag­ing in a sta­tion­ary imag­ing suite. A PET/CT scan com­bines both a CT and PET scan to pro­vide the physi­cians with detailed infor­ma­tion regard­ing a patient’s can­cer. QMG added this new tech­nol­o­gy in the sum­mer of 2020.

“While patients are in our care, their expe­ri­ence is impor­tant,” QMG Direc­tor of Imag­ing Ser­vices Dol­ly Lit­tle. ​“Pro­vid­ing PET/CT imag­ing inside our facil­i­ty means patients no longer have to receive their scans on a mobile truck unit. Patients now can have their imag­ing in the com­fort of our QMG Can­cer Institute.”

The ACR accred­i­ta­tion comes after an exten­sive review process to ensure the radi­ol­o­gy ser­vices meet nation­al standards.

“Quin­cy Med­ical Group strives to pro­vide patients the high­est lev­el of ser­vice. Receiv­ing this accred­i­ta­tion demon­strates our con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to qual­i­ty and our patients,” said Little.

The Amer­i­can Col­lege of Radi­ol­o­gy is at the fore­front of radi­ol­o­gy evo­lu­tion, rep­re­sent­ing more than 38,000 radi­ol­o­gists, radi­a­tion oncol­o­gists, nuclear med­i­cine physi­cians, and med­ical physi­cists. Its core pur­pose is to serve patients and soci­ety by empow­er­ing mem­bers to advance the prac­tice, sci­ence, and pro­fes­sions of radi­o­log­i­cal care.

The ACR awards accred­i­ta­tion to facil­i­ties for the achieve­ment of high prac­tice stan­dards after a peer-review eval­u­a­tion of its prac­tice. Image qual­i­ty and pro­ce­dure eval­u­a­tions are con­duct­ed by board-cer­ti­fied radi­ol­o­gists and med­ical physi­cists who are experts in the field. The pro­gram also eval­u­ates per­son­nel qual­i­fi­ca­tions, ade­qua­cy of facil­i­ty equip­ment, qual­i­ty con­trol pro­ce­dures, and qual­i­ty assur­ance pro­grams. All find­ings are report­ed to the prac­tice via a com­pre­hen­sive report that includes rec­om­men­da­tions for improvement.

For more infor­ma­tion on QMG Can­cer Institute’s imag­ing ser­vices, vis­it quin​cymed​group​.com/​c​ancer.