OSF St. Joseph Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of reaccreditation in ultrasound as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology (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.

The ACR is a national organization of more than 32,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, interventional radiologists, and nuclear medicine physicians.

OSF St. Joseph Medical Center has also maintained ACR accreditation in mammography since 2000 and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) since 2003.