Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Designated an ACR Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence

August 2, 2024

STANFORD, Calif.—Stanford Medicine Children’s Health has been designated a Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence® (DICOE) by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The DICOE program, which represents the pinnacle of medical imaging care, is an achievement that goes beyond accreditation to recognize top-quality imaging practices and diagnostic care.

“This is an exciting time for our team,” says Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD, radiologist in chief at Stanford Children’s and the William R. Brody Professor of Pediatric Radiology and Child Health at Stanford University. “We went through a very comprehensive evaluation to ensure that we’re meeting the high standards of the ACR for providing imaging-based care—not only in image acquisition, but also in professionalism, image interpretation, clinical competency, radiation management, and a whole host of safety metrics to achieve this distinction.”

The ACR survey team comprehensively assessed the pediatric radiology program across all imaging modalities: radiography, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography, MRI, nuclear medicine, and interventional radiology. As Stanford Children’s imaging services is a DICOE facility, the team:

• Provides patients with the utmost confidence of receiving today’s highest levels of imaging quality, safety, and care.
• Offers excellence at multiple levels across professional staff, technology, policy, and procedures.
• Has an ongoing process for self-assessment and improvement and contributing to leadership in the field, including participation in the ACR Dose Index Registry and General Radiology Improvement Database.

“Patients can be assured that there is strong focus on quality at our facility,” Dr. Vasanawala says. “For instance, not only does each MRI scanner undergo testing on a regular basis to ensure the accuracy of its images, but also we have a rigorous peer learning process to continually improve and give our patients the best care possible.”

During the review process, ACR surveyors recognized the Stanford Children’s imaging services team for its excellence in organization and governance structure, partnership with operations and medical leadership under each modality, MRI safety practices, and electronic logging systems for quality control and environmental surveying.

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