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16 cancer care facilities receive achievement awards
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The American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer presented Outstanding Achievement Awards to 16 accredited cancer programs.
The awards are intended to recognize cancer programs that achieve excellence in providing quality care; motivate other cancer programs to work toward improving their level of care; facilitate dialogue between award recipients and health care professionals at other facilities, with the goal of sharing best practices; and encourage recipients to serve as quality-care resources to other cancer programs.
“More and more, we’re finding that patients and their families want to know how the health care institutions in their communities compare with one another,” Lawrence N. Shulman, MD, FACP, chair of the Commission on Cancer, said in a press release. “They want access to information in terms of who’s providing the best quality of care, and they want to know about overall patient outcomes. Through this recognition program, I’d like to think we’re playing a small but vital role in helping them make informed decisions on their cancer care.”
The honored cancer programs represent “the best of the best when it comes to cancer care,” Shulman added. “Each of these facilities is not just meeting nationally recognized standards for the delivery of quality cancer care, they are exceeding them.”
Award recipients are Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California; Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut; University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky; Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, Nebraska; Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, New Jersey; Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York; Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio; Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio; Fairview Hospital in Cleveland; Comanche County Memorial Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma; Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania; Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas; Virginia Hospital Center — Arlington in Arlington, Virginia; Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, Virginia; and Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare — La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin.