Advanced Breast Center at Wellington Regional has recently been recognized as a Certified Participant in the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers Program™. This distinguished honor represents a commitment by this breast center to provide the highest level of quality breast health care to patients in their community.
Measuring and comparing quality performance is essential in assessing patient care and allocating resources where improvement is desired. In today’s dynamic health care industry, breast centers are faced with providing quality care while simultaneously keeping costs under control. A center’s staff must not only be familiar with existing standards of care but must also be aware of new advances in technology. Advanced Breast Center at Wellington Regional has taken a major step to ensure they provide the best possible quality care to breast patients in their community.
About Wellington Regional Medical Center:
As an accredited breast cancer program, Wellington Regional Medical Center (WRMC) has been recognized nationally as a leader in breast imaging and the treatment of breast cancer. As an American College of Radiology (ACR) Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, WRMC has demonstrated excellence in mammography, breast ultrasound and MRI of the breast, as well as stereotactic, ultrasound and MRI guided breast biopsies.
Wellington Regional Medical Center is located in Wellington, Florida. It is a 235-bed, acute care hospital.. Wellington Regional is proud to have provided high quality healthcare services to the residents of Palm Beach County since 1986. As a community hospital, accredited by The Joint Commission, Wellington Regional prides itself on its continued commitment to remain on the forefront of advanced technologies and expand programs and services to meet the needs of the growing community it serves.
About NQMBC:
Launched in April of 2005 and now used in 45 states, the NQMBC program offers facilities providing breast health care the ability to track and measure breast center performance in over 40 individual quality indicators. The NQMBC has been validated by multiple peer reviewed medical journal publications. The most compelling component of this program is the ability of participants to enter their data and immediately compare their performance with other participating breast centers across the country. Centers may also compare themselves with centers like their own, their size, their location, the numbers of mammograms or cancers seen per year as well as other variables. Participants use these comparison reports to identify where quality care already exists and where quality care improvement opportunities exist. The NCBC facility membership allows participation in the NQMBC program without any additional cost.
The National Consortium of Breast Centers is proud to recognize Advanced Breast Center at Wellington Regional as a Certified Participant. Advanced Breast Center at Wellington Regional will continue in its commitment to provide the highest quality care to its patients and work on keeping up a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence.
The National Quality Measures for Breast Centers™ were developed by referencing the Health Care Advisory Board’s Clinical Quality Dashboard for breast centers published in the fall of 2004. The National Quality Measures for Breast Centers™ reflect more than 11 years of work, which has culminated in the adoption of more than 33 National Quality Indicators™.
The National Consortium of Breast Centers promotes excellence in breast health care for the general public through a network of diverse professionals dedicated to the active exchange of ideas and resources. It serves as an informational resource and provides support services to those rendering care to people with breast diseases through educational programs, newsletters, a national directory and patient forums. It encourages professionals to concentrate and specialize in activities related to breast disease and encourages the development of programs and centers that address breast disease and promote breast health. It facilitates collaborative research opportunities on issues of breast health; and developed a set of core measures to define, improve and sustain quality standards in breast health care programs and for quality performance in all types of breast health care facilities.
For more information regarding the NQMBC™ Program, visit www.nqmbc.org
National Consortium of Breast Centers, Inc.
1017 East Winona Ave Warsaw, IN 46580
Phone: 574-267-8058