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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 4, 2011 Media Contact: Makana Shook (808) 547-4105 THE QUEEN’S MEDICAL CENTER DESIGNATED AS BREAST IMAGING CENTER OF EXCELLENCE BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY HONOLULU — The Queen’s Medical Center (QMC) has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR). By awarding facilities the status of a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, the ACR recognizes breast imaging centers that have earned accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory Mammography Accreditation Program. "The Queen's Medical Center is the only breast center in Hawaii designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence and accredited by the NAPBC (National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers),” said Darlena Chadwick, Queen’s Vice President, Patient Care. “In addition, Queen's is a selected NCCCP (National Cancer Institute’s Community Cancer Center Programs) site, of which there are only 30 in the nation. The Queen's Medical Center is also one of only six hospitals in the nation that have both the NAPBC accreditation and the NCCCP selection." The breast imaging services at QMC are fully accredited in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound and ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. Peer-review evaluations, conducted in each breast imaging modality by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field, have determined that this facility has achieved high practice standards in imaging quality, personnel qualifications, facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs. The ACR, headquartered in Reston, VA., is a national organization serving more than 32,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologist, radiation oncologist, nuclear medicine physicians, and medial physicist with programs for focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology, as well as the delivery of comprehensive health care services. ### The Queen’s Medical Center is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation, acute care medical facility accredited by The Joint Commission. The facility houses 505 acute beds and 28 sub-acute beds and is widely known for its programs in cancer, cardiovascular disease, neuroscience, orthopaedics, surgery, emergency medicine and trauma, and behavioral medicine. Queen’s is home to a number of residency programs offered in conjunction with the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. Queen’s has achieved Magnet® status – the highest institutional honor for hospital excellence – from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Magnet® recognition is held by less than six percent of hospitals in the United States. Queen’s is the first hospital in Hawai‘i to achieve Magnet® status.