MSU Health Care, McLaren Greater Lansing Designated an ACR Breast Imaging Center of Excellence

February 21, 2023

Lansing, MI – MSU Health Care at McLaren Greater Lansing Breast Imaging Center has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR).

“This achievement highlights the commitment our facility, staff, and physicians place on providing the highest quality breast care for our patients,” said David Rawson, DO, lead interpreting physician at the MSU Health Care at McLaren Greater Lansing Breast Imaging Center. “The Breast Imaging Center is now dual accredited by the American College of Radiology as a Breast Center of Excellence and by the American College of Surgeons’ National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.  These represent the highest levels of quality possible in the delivery of breast care.”

By awarding facilities the status of a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, the ACR recognizes breast imaging centers that have earned accreditation in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, and breast ultrasound (including ultrasound-guided breast biopsy and breast MRI).

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 this facility has achieved high practice standards in image quality, personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs.

In addition to being accredited in the mandatory mammography accreditation program, the Breast Imaging Center became accredited in all voluntary breast-imaging programs and modules.

“The process to receive this recognition is very detailed and we’re excited to have received this prestigious recognition,” said Holly Peterson, assistant radiology administrator at MSU Health Care Imaging Services. “It speaks very highly of the support and collaboration between MSU Health Care and McLaren Greater Lansing.”

McLaren Greater Lansing and MSU Health Care partnered in 2022 on a new state-of-the-art breast imaging center by combining the locations for McLaren’s Breast Care Center and MSU Health Care Women’s Imaging Center at McLaren’s new hospital campus that opened in March 2022.

“Combining the best of both facilities has allowed us to bring higher quality and more efficient care to one convenient location for the community,” said Peterson.

For more information visit mclaren.org/lansing.

 

About the American College of Radiology

The ACR is a national professional organization serving more than 36,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.                                                                                                                             

About McLaren Greater Lansing

McLaren Greater Lansing, is a tertiary teaching facility with 240 acute care beds, located in Lansing, Michigan on the southern edge of the Michigan State University campus. McLaren Greater Lansing moved to the new hospital building located at the new healthcare campus in spring 2022. Among its services are a Level III Trauma Center/Emergency Department, Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute, comprehensive cardiac programs, medical/surgical units, and state-of-the-art women and children’s health services including a modern birthing center. Also located at the healthcare campus is the Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Greater Lansing and Outpatient Care Center.  For more information visit mclaren.org/lansing 

Residency programs are affiliated with Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and the Statewide Campus System. Residencies include family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, anesthesiology, and obstetrics/gynecology. Fellowships are offered in cardiology, hematology/oncology, gastroenterology, and pulmonary critical care. McLaren Greater Lansing also participates in a city wide residency programs in emergency medicine, neurology, urology, psychiatry, and physical and rehabilitation medicine.

About MSU Health Care
MSU Health Care is the fully integrated academic health center of Michigan State University, representing more than 600 faculty and affiliate providers. Our commitment to safe, high-quality patient care is realized through our comprehensive services for people of any age, education of the next generation of health care providers and medical research. MSU Health Care providers treat ongoing primary care as well as some of the rarest forms of cancer and neurological conditions along with advanced surgical, pharmaceutical, rehabilitation, therapy and imaging services. With more than 100 affiliates located next door and as far as Ludington, Saginaw, Detroit, and Marquette, MSU Health Care is building hope and healing for Michigan. Our clinical efforts support future advancements through academic and research initiatives at Michigan State University. https://healthcare.msu.edu/

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