ACR Accreditation

MRI of Arizona is accredited by American College of Radiology (ACR) and has been awarded a 3-year term of accreditation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging as the result of a recent survey by the ACR. The ACR awards accreditation to facilities for the achievement of high practice standards after a peer-review evaluation of the practice.

Evaluations are conducted by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. They assess the qualifications of the personnel and the adequacy of facility equipment. The surveyors report their findings to the ACR’s Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report. For more information about the American College of Radiology visit www.acr.org.

Why would a facility not be accredited?

In most cases, facilities’ MRI systems are simply unable to meet the high resolution standards set by the ACR. Technicians operating the MRI systems must possess the expertise to properly operate the system in order to meet the ACR’s accreditation requirements. Often the case is that the technicians or the lack of board-certified radiologists lack the experience to meet the ACR standards. Even if the technicians and the radiologists have the expertise to operate the MRI system, the use of archaic, outdated equipment makes it impossible to meet the resolutions standards.