Standards 2012
Cancer Program Standards 2012: Ensuring Patient Care
Complimentary Electronic Version of Cancer Program Standards 2012: Ensuring Patient-Centered Care Manual (3570K PDF)
Cancer Program Standards 2012: Ensuring Patient-Centered Care (released August 2011) has been completely revised and updated to establish new standards that focus on patient-centered needs and bring an additional focus on the quality of care and outcomes.
RQRS
Rapid Quality Reporting System
RQRS is a reporting and quality improvement tool which provides real clinical time assessment of hospital level adherence to NQF-endorsed quality of cancer care measures for breast and colorectal cancers. The Rapid Quality Reporting System (RQRS) will be available to all CoC accredited cancer programs beginning Monday, September 19, 2011.
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| David P. Winchester, MD, FACS, surgical oncologist, and Medical Director, ACS Cancer Programs in Chicago, IL, discusses the satisfaction in following patients who are long-term survivors of cancer, and the importance of a nationally accredited cancer program. |
Survey Savvy
CoC Survey Savvy Workshop: The 2012 Patient-Centered Standards
Join us in Chicago on March 8–9, 2012. This workshop will examine each of the standards and provide the participants with tools to facilitate implementation and enhanced performance with the standards.
Revised January 25, 2012