Jan. 14, 2009

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St. Cloud Hospital Imaging, Heart Center earn three-year accreditation

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud Hospital Imaging Services and the Central Minnesota Heart Center at St. Cloud Hospital have been awarded a three-year term of accreditation by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Imaging Services received accreditation for Computed Tomography (CT) scanning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nuclear Medicine.
These services are available at both St. Cloud Hospital and CentraCare Health Plaza.
The Heart Center received accreditation for Nuclear Medicine services which is available
at the Central Minnesota Heart Center and its mobile nuclear medicine program.

The ACR, headquartered in Reston, Va., awards accreditation to facilities for the achievement of high practice standards after a peer-review evaluation of the practice. Evaluations are conducted by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. They assess the qualifications of the personnel and the adequacy of facility equipment. The surveyors report their findings to the ACR’s Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report.

The ACR is a national organization serving more than 32,000 diagnostic and interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists and nuclear medicine and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.

Learn more about St. Cloud Hospital Imaging Services

Learn more about the Central Minnesota Heart Center

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