Quincy Medical Group Recertified for Cancer Care from Largest Oncology Society in United States

February 28, 2017

QUIN­CY, IL – Quin­cy Med­ical Group has received reac­cred­i­ta­tion by the QOPI Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Pro­gram (QCP™), an affil­i­ate of the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Clin­i­cal Oncol­o­gy (ASCO). QCP builds on ASCO’s Qual­i­ty Oncol­o­gy Prac­tice Ini­tia­tive (QOPI®), pro­vid­ing a three-year cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for out­pa­tient hema­tol­ogy-oncol­o­gy prac­tices that meet nation­al­ly rec­og­nized stan­dards for qual­i­ty can­cer care.

“This recer­ti­fi­ca­tion demon­strates our com­mit­ment to our patients to pro­vide the high­est qual­i­ty of care,” said Diane Ger­ards, Senior Direc­tor, Med­ical Oncol­o­gy Ser­vices with Quin­cy Med­ical Group.

Quin­cy Med­ical Group first achieved cer­ti­fi­ca­tion in the spring of 2013. In apply­ing for recer­ti­fi­ca­tion, Quin­cy Med­ical Group par­tic­i­pat­ed in a vol­un­tary com­pre­hen­sive site assess­ment against clear­ly spec­i­fied stan­dards that are con­sis­tent with nation­al guide­lines and was suc­cess­ful in meet­ing the stan­dards and objec­tives of QCP.

“ASCO’s QOPI cer­ti­fi­ca­tion rec­og­nizes those oncol­o­gy prac­tices that are com­mit­ted to deliv­er­ing the high­est qual­i­ty of can­cer care,” said ASCO Pres­i­dent Daniel F. Hayes, MD, FAS­CO. ​“By achiev­ing recer­ti­fi­ca­tion, these prac­tices have demon­strat­ed their com­mit­ment to qual­i­ty and safe­ty excel­lence in the care they deliv­er to patients, as well as to the con­tin­u­ous process of qual­i­ty improvement.”

QOPI is a vol­un­tary self-assess­ment and improve­ment pro­gram launched by ASCO in 2006 to help hema­tol­ogy-oncol­o­gy and med­ical oncol­o­gy prac­tices assess the qual­i­ty of the care they pro­vide to patients. Through the QOPI pro­gram, prac­tices abstract data from patients’ records up to twice per year and enter this infor­ma­tion into a secure data­base. More than 900 oncol­o­gy prac­tices have reg­is­tered for the QOPI program.

QOPI® ana­lyzes indi­vid­ual prac­tice data and com­pares these to more than 160 evi­dence-based and con­sen­sus qual­i­ty mea­sures. The infor­ma­tion is then pro­vid­ed in reports to par­tic­i­pat­ing prac­tices. Indi­vid­ual prac­tices are also able to com­pare their per­for­mance to data from oth­er prac­tices across the coun­try. Based on this feed­back, doc­tors and prac­tices can iden­ti­fy areas for improvement.

To become cer­ti­fied, prac­tices have to sub­mit to an eval­u­a­tion of their entire prac­tice and doc­u­men­ta­tion stan­dards. The QCP staff and steer­ing group mem­bers then ver­i­fy through on-site inspec­tion that the eval­u­a­tion and doc­u­ments are cor­rect and that the prac­tices met core stan­dards in areas of treat­ment, including:

  • Treat­ment planning
  • Staff train­ing and education
  • Chemother­a­py orders and drug preparation
  • Patient con­sent and education
  • Safe chemother­a­py administration
  • Mon­i­tor­ing and assess­ment of patient well-being.

About ASCO

Found­ed in 1964, the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Clin­i­cal Oncol­o­gy, Inc. (ASCO®) is com­mit­ted to mak­ing a world of dif­fer­ence in can­cer care. As the world’s lead­ing orga­ni­za­tion of its kind, ASCO rep­re­sents more than 40,000 oncol­o­gy pro­fes­sion­als who care for peo­ple liv­ing with can­cer. Through research, edu­ca­tion, and pro­mo­tion of the high­est-qual­i­ty patient care, ASCO works to con­quer can­cer and cre­ate a world where can­cer is pre­vent­ed or cured, and every sur­vivor is healthy. ASCO is sup­port­ed by its affil­i­ate orga­ni­za­tion, the Con­quer Cancer