Posted Sep 10, 2020 at 11:44 AM
EXETER – The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has granted Three-Year Accreditation to Exeter Hospital’s Center for Breast Health.
To achieve voluntary NAPBC accreditation, a breast center demonstrates compliance with the NAPBC standards that involve center leadership, clinical services, research, community outreach, professional education, and quality improvement. Breast centers seeking NAPBC accreditation undergo a site visit every three years.
As a NAPBC-accredited center, Exeter Hospital’s Center for Breast Health is committed to maintaining levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive, patient-centered, multidisciplinary, high-quality care for patients with breast disease. Patients receiving care at a NAPBC-accredited center have access to information on new treatments, clinical trials, genetic counseling, and patient centered services including psycho-social support. A survivorship care plan documents the care each patient receives and seeks to improve cancer survivor’s quality of life.
“Finding an abnormality of the breast can be traumatic for many women. At the Exeter Hospital Center for Breast Health, we have developed a program where diseases of the breast can be evaluated comprehensively with state of the art equipment, and treated by a team of caring, compassionate providers, who are committed to providing high quality breast health care,” said Rebecca Kwait, MD, FACS, Medical Director, Exeter Hospital Center for Breast Health. “We are now proud to be the only center on the New Hampshire Seacoast accredited by the NAPBC. Our team felt that pursuing accreditation was the right approach for our patients because adhering to these national standards results in improved clinical outcomes, increased access to information for patients and a commitment to providing the highest quality breast care available.”
Receiving care at this NAPBC-accredited center ensures that patients have access to:
“Becoming NAPBC accredited provides to our patients the confidence that our multidisciplinary breast treatment team (made up of specialists in the care and treatment of breast cancer) is not only providing expert focus on breast health but also that we have the latest in technology and treatments for breast cancer,” said Gary Proulx, MD, Medical Director for Radiation Oncology.
“We are thrilled to learn that we became a member of the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers,” said YongLi Ji, MD, PhD, Medical Oncology. “The accreditation is affirmation of the outstanding care we have been providing. Cancer treatment is a complex process, and this helps patients to find trust, confidence and comfort in their treatment of breast diseases in Exeter Hospital ”