NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 10, 2017 --- For the fifth consecutive year, Hoag Breast Center has been designated
a Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence – the highest level
of accreditation – by the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers
Program™ (NQMBC™). Hoag Breast Center is the first and only
breast center in Orange County, and just one of 49 in the United States
to receive this prestigious designation.
“It’s an honor to be recognized as a Certified Quality Breast
Center of Excellence,”
said Allyson Brooks, M.D., the Ginny Ueberroth Executive Medical Director
Endowed Chair of Hoag Women’s Health Institute. “This distinction reinforces Hoag’s place as a national leader for
breast cancer and represents Hoag’s commitment to providing the highest level
of quality breast care to our patients.”
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. As one of the first facilities in the state to offer
Breast Tomosynthesis (3D Mammography), Hoag is dedicated to providing patients access to emerging technologies
to help diagnose breast cancer at its earliest stage. Hoag was also 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 is one of the few elite programs nationwide to perform
Oncoplastic Surgery, the innovative, breast-conserving surgical technique that allows curative
breast cancer surgery while at the same time conserving or even improving
the cosmetic appearance of the breast, resulting in optimal patient outcomes.
“Our dedication to patients is why Hoag is the most selected breast
center in Orange County, treating nearly 700 breast cancers annually and
performing almost 50,000 mammograms a year. Whether you’re coming
in for your
annual mammogram or going through breast cancer treatment, we put our patients at the center
of everything we do, and our team of specialists creates a lifelong partnership
with each woman who comes to see us for her breast care needs,”
Dr. Brooks said.
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 29,000 inpatients
and 305,000 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 seven health centers
and ten 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 2016 - 2017
U.S. News & World Report, andBecker’s Hospital Review named Hoag as one of the 2016 “100 Great Hospitals in America”
– a designation Hoag has received four times. National Research
Corporation has endorsed Hoag as Orange County’s most preferred
hospital for the past 20 consecutive years and, for an unprecedented 21
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.