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It’s October – Go Pink! Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  From the start- Get your mammogram and encourage your friends and family to comply. Throw Back Thursday – In 1992 Congress passed the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) to ensure women got high quality screening mammograms.  The standard bearer for the new law was not a woman seeking better health care for women. It was a Congressman whose sister received a poor quality procedure … Continue reading It’s October – Go Pink! Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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NEWS About the MQSA EQUIP Initiative: What you need to know!

A new MQSA regulatory program called Enhancing Quality Using the Inspection Process (EQUIP) became effective on January 1, 2017 to continue the promotion of clinical image quality. The program will be phased in over a 3 year period. This initial year is intended to be an educational year. During this year, inspectors will provide information about the program and alert the facility of the FDA … Continue reading NEWS About the MQSA EQUIP Initiative: What you need to know!

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