Texas Health Plano’s Women’s Diagnostic Center earns Excellence award
It’s official. Our Texas Health Plano hospital’s Women’s Disagnostic Center has been named a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence in the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers Program™ (NQMBC).
The NQMBC is an initiative of the National Consortium of Breast Centers, which has 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.
This new recognition is the consortium’s highest certification level. To achieve it, centers must:
- Already be designated a Certified Quality Breast Center
- Supply data for 90 percent of the measures for which their center type should be able to measure performance, spanning two consecutive six-month periods within the past three years
- Perform above the 25th percentile on those measures
“This award is especially meaningful because it shows the level of dedication our employees put forth every day to serve our community,” said Evelyn Hairston, R.T. (R)(M(BS), manager of the Women’s Diagnostic Center. “Screening for and treating breast cancer is not an easy task. It takes compassion from everyone. “All of us at the Sue A. de Mille Women’s Diagnostic Center live Our Texas Health PromiseSM by treating our patients and each other with respect, integrity and compassion.”
Patricia Krakos, M.D., a physician on the medical staff and medical director of the center, agreed.
“This certification is the highest level that a breast center can receive and is reflective of the quality of care we strive to give each and every patient,” she said. “We are so proud of the center’s dedicated employees and physicians on the medical staff for achieving this level of recognition, and for the care they provide our patients.”
by Robin P. Loveman • Posted September 10, 2018
