Rome Memorial Hospital awarded accreditation for ultrasound services

ROME, N.Y. — Rome Memorial Hospital has been awarded a three-year accreditation by the American College of Radiology (ACR) for its breast ultrasound services.

Those services include breast ultrasound imaging for better detection of abnormalities in dense breast tissue, and ultrasound-guided biopsy services.

“ACR accreditation is considered the highest standard in the imaging field,” Sharon Carson, medical imaging department director, said in a Rome Memorial Hospital news release.

“While the Ultrasound Department at Rome Memorial Hospital has been accredited by the ACR for three years, this is the first time we have been granted accreditation specific to breast ultrasound, as well as ultrasound guided breast biopsy,” Carson continued, “Our facility and its personnel have gone through a comprehensive review to earn accreditation status by the American College of Radiology.”

The ACR Breast Ultrasound Accreditation Program provides feedback on staff and radiologist qualifications, equipment, quality control, quality assurance, accuracy, and image quality. Accreditation is awarded only to facilities meeting the most stringent practice guidelines and technical standards, according to the release.

Rome Memorial Hospital’s team of medical-imaging technologists and radiologists are led by John Restivo, M.D., radiologist and chairman of the hospital’s medical imaging department.