Our ACR accreditation in Radiation Oncology makes us very proud and highlights our high quality committment to our patients.
You can verify our accreditation online by clicking here and selecting "Radiation Oncology" for the modality and "North Carolina" for the locality.
You can find more on the ACR Accreditation Program by clicking here.
External Monitoring
The ECU Physicians Radiation Oncology is externally monitored by the Radiological Physics Center (RPC). The RPC has been funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) continuously since 1968 to provide quality auditing of dosimetry practices at institutions participating in NCI cooperative clinical trials, and has been housed at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center since its inception.
The primary responsibility of the RPC is to assure the NCI and the cooperative clinical trial groups that all participating institutions have the equipment, personnel, and procedures necessary to administer radiation doses that are clinically comparable and consistent.
IMRT Certification
Our IMRT technology is fully credentialed by the Radiological Physics Center (RPC). This credentialing allows our patients to be enrolled in clinical trials using IMRT technology for all body sites. The most rigourous IMRT credentialing is for head and neck treatment due to the high degree of complexity. We proudly obtained head and neck IMRT credentialing on our first try.
Continuous Quality Assurance Program
Our continuous quality improvement program includes, among others:
• Daily new patient conference
• Weekly chart rounds
• Individual physician peer review
• Continuous chart review
• Patient satisfaction surveys
• Port film reviews
• Weekly quality assurance meeting
