NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., November 27, 2018 --- Hoag Breast Center is the first and only breast center in Orange County
to be named a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence – the
highest level of accreditation – by the National Quality Measures
for Breast Centers Program™ (NQMBC™). Recognized for the sixth
consecutive year, Hoag Breast Center is just one of 57 facilities in the
United States to receive this designation.
“We are proud of this prestigious designation and consider it to
be both a tribute to the high quality care we deliver, as well as a mandate
to continue to strive for excellence on behalf of our patients,”
said January Lopez, M.D., director of Breast Imaging for Hoag Breast Centers.
The NQMBC measures a breast center’s performance on select indicators
such as timeliness of care for screening and diagnostic mammography, mammography
call back rate, patient satisfaction, surgical care, pathology and radiation.
Hoag Breast Centers, in both
Newport Beach and
Irvine, offer comprehensive breast care services from prevention and screening
to diagnostics and treatment. Thanks to a gift from Circle 1000, Hoag
was one of the first facilities in the state to offer
Breast Tomosynthesis (3D Mammography) and is dedicated to providing patients access to emerging technologies
to help diagnose breast cancer at its earliest stage. Donor support from
the community also allowed Hoag to be one of the first hospitals in California
to have a dedicated breast MRI unit.
Additionally, under the leadership of
Melvin Silverstein, M.D., Gross Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Oncoplastic
Breast Surgery and medical director of Hoag Breast Center, Hoag has the largest database of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
clinical trials with over 1,150 patients, the most cases for a single
site in the United States.
“IORT offers our patients a clinically effective, faster and easier
alternative to whole breast radiation therapy,” Dr. Silverstein
said. “We are able to reduce treatment to 30 minutes versus 30 days
which means less repeat visits and physical discomfort, less emotional
stress and the opportunity to immediately return to your daily life and
routine.”
To find out more about Hoag Breast Center, visit
www.hoag.org/specialties-services/breast-program.
ABOUT HOAG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PRESBYTERIAN
Hoag is an approximately $1 billion nonprofit, regional health care delivery
network in Orange County, California, that treats more than 30,000 inpatients
and 425,000 outpatients annually. Hoag consists of two acute-care hospitals
– Hoag Hospital Newport Beach, which opened in 1952, and Hoag Hospital
Irvine, which opened in 2010 – in addition to eight health centers
and 11 urgent care centers. Hoag is a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Hoag offers
a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes five institutes
providing specialized services in the following areas:
cancer,
heart and vascular,
neurosciences,
women’s health, and orthopedics through Hoag’s affiliate,
Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and two ambulatory surgical centers.
In 2013, Hoag entered into an alliance with St. Joseph Health to further
expand health care services in the Orange County community, known as St.
Joseph Hoag Health. Hoag has been named one of the Best Regional Hospitals
in the 2018 - 2019
U.S. News & World Report, andBecker’s Healthcare named Hoag as one of the 2018 “100 Great Hospitals in America”
– a designation Hoag has received five times. For an unprecedented
23 years, residents of Orange County have chosen Hoag as one of the county’s
best hospitals in a local newspaper survey. Visit
www.hoag.org for more information.
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