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Pocono Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in nuclear medicine with the addition of Pocono Medical Center&#8217;s Bartonsville Healthcare Center being awarded a three-year term of accreditation in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR).The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. It is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards after a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs are assessed.The findings are reported to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report they can use for continuous practice improvement.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.

Pocono Medical Center receives ACR accreditation