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Southcoast Hospitals’ Breast Imaging Centers

By Southcoast Hospitals

Southcoast Breast services recognized by American College of Radiology as Center of Excellence Southcoast Hospitals’ Breast Imaging Centers are the first in the South Coast region to be designated Centers of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Southcoast offers breast health services at nine centers across Southeastern Massachusetts.

“Patients can feel confident that the Southcoast centers have achieved high practice standards in image quality, facility equipment and quality control,” Christine Lopiano, Mammography Outreach Manager, Southcoast Hospitals Group. “The designation also means that our personnel have the qualifications and expertise to provide this high standard of care.”

This prestigious designation is the highest accreditation offered to breast health centers across the U.S. The status of a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the ACR recognizes breast imaging centers that have earned accreditation in all of the College’s voluntary, breast-imaging accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory Mammography Accreditation Program.

Southcoast is a primary provider of breast health services in the region and offers 100 percent digital mammography services at its three hospital sites — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, and Tobey Hospital in Wareham — and at several offsite locations, including the Center for Women's Health at Faunce Corner in North Dartmouth, Truesdale Clinic in Fall River, the Greater New Bedford Community Health Center in New Bedford, and several physician offices located in Fall River.
All nine of the Southcoast Breast Imaging Centers are accredited by the ACR and three of those are designated as Centers of Excellence for a full range of breast health modalities. They are located at Charlton Memorial Hospital, The Center for Women’s Health at Faunce Corner, and Tobey Hospital.

The breast imaging services at these centers are fully accredited in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. Peer-review evaluations, conducted in each breast imaging modality by board-certified physicians and medical physicists, who are experts in the field, have determined that these facilities have achieved high practice standards in image quality, personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs.

The nine Southcoast Breast Imaging Centers work as a system, coordinating a full range of breast health services for women who may need further testing and treatment after undergoing mammography.

“Most mammograms are normal. But if your mammogram raises any questions, we coordinate all of the services you may need including breast ultrasound, MRI and stereotactic breast biopsies without any stressful delays at our advanced Southcoast diagnostic centers in Fall River, North Dartmouth and Wareham,” Dr. Anne Ruggieri, Chair of Radiology Imaging Services at St. Luke’s and Tobey Hospitals, said.

The ACR, headquartered in Reston, Va., is a national organization serving more than 32,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs for focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology, as well as the delivery of comprehensive health care services.

Southcoast Hospitals

Southcoast Health System is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes the three hospitals that make up Southcoast Hospitals Group — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast provides advanced clinical services, such as open heart surgery, angioplasty and heart rhythm services, comprehensive cancer care, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery, orthopedic surgery, advanced imaging services and is the only provider of maternity services in the region.

Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of the community to provide services.

www.southcoast.org

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363 Highland Avenue
Fall River, MA

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