Accreditations

Before your imaging procedure be sure to ask your physician the following questions:

• Why is the test needed?
• How will having the test improve my care?
• Are there alternatives that do not use radiation and deliver similar results?
• Is the facility accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR)?
• Are pediatric and adult tests delivered using the appropriate radiation doses?

When you see the gold seals of accreditation prominently displayed in our imaging facility, you can be sure that you are in a facility that meets standards for imaging quality and safety. Look for the ACR Gold Seals of Accreditation.

To achieve the ACR Gold Standard of Accreditation, our facility’s personnel qualifications, equipment requirements, quality assurance, and quality control procedures have gone through a rigorous review process and have met specific qualifications. It’s important for patients to know that every aspect of the ACR accreditation process is overseen by board-certified, expert radiologists and medical physicists in advanced diagnostic imaging.

• Our facility has voluntarily gone through a vigorous review process to ensure that we meet nationally-accepted standards of care.
• Our personnel are well qualified, through education and certification, to perform medical imaging, interpret your images, and administer your radiation therapy treatments.
• Our equipment is appropriate for the test or treatment you will receive, and our facility meets or exceeds quality assurance and safety guidelines.

When you see the ACR gold seal, you can rest assured that your prescribed imaging test will be done at a facility that has met the highest level of imaging quality and radiation safety. The facility and its personnel have gone through a comprehensive review to earn accreditation status by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the largest and oldest imaging accrediting body in the U.S. and a professional organization of 34,000 physicians.

Chico Breast Care Center is an FDA Certified Mammography Facility and meets baseline quality standards for equipment, personnel, and practices under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). For further information about MQSA Certification, please visit the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) website.

Chico Breast Care Center has been designated as a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence in the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers program, which is administered by the National Consortium of Breast Centers, Inc. The program is aimed at measuring and improving the quality of breast health care provided by imaging professionals to their patients. Chico Breast Care Center is 1 of only 6 centers in California to achieve this designation. For more information on this program, visit nqmbc.org.

North Valley Advanced Imaging has successfully achieved accreditation in CT for pediatric imaging by demonstrating our ability to image pediatric patients with appropriate radiation doses. For further information, please visit the Image Gently website.

All North State Radiology physicians are board certified by the American Board of Radiology. For additional information on certification standards, please visit the ABR website.