Breast Care

CHI Health offers a full range of services related to breast health and breast cancer, including prevention, detection, treatment and survivorship with services and programs designed for all stages of life.

• Breast Health Center
• Cancer Classes and Support Groups
• Cancer Genetic Education and Testing
• Renewed Hope Boutique
  
• Clinical Trials
• Nurse Navigators

Breast cancers are potentially life-threatening malignancies that develop in one or both breasts. Certain risk factors can increase the chances of developing breast cancer:

• being older than 55
• being a woman
• family history of breast cancer
• genetic factors
• previous radiation to the chest
• first period at an early age (before 12 years old)
• starting menopause late (after 55)
• dense breast tissue

American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Center of Excellence

This designation is awarded to breast imaging centers that achieve excellence by seeking and earning accreditation in all of the ACR’s voluntary breast-imaging accreditation programs and modules, in addition to the mandatory Mammography Accreditation Program.

National Quality Measures for Breast Centers

The CHI Health Breast Health Center has achieved the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers (NQMBC™) Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence accreditation. This is the highest certification level. This certification recognizes a center’s quality performance as meeting quality standards criteria. In addition to the requirements to become a Certified Participant, the Certified Quality Breast Center applicant must have supplied 90% of the measures for which their quality breast center type should be able to measure performance.

National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers

The CHI Health Breast Health Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeon's National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Accreditation by the NAPBC is granted only to those centers that are voluntarily committed to providing the best possible care to patients with diseases of the breast. Each breast center must undergo a rigorous evaluation and review of its performance and compliance with NAPBC Standards.

CHI Breast Center of Excellence

In order to obtain this designation, a breast center must hold accreditation with the American College of Surgeon’s National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), be recognized as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence (BICOE) by the American College of Radiology, and be certified as a Quality Breast Center of Excellence through the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers (NQMBC). Less than 1% of breast centers across the country have achieved this significant accomplishment.