NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Radiation Oncology
Services of America, Inc. (ROSA), a subsidiary of Ambulatory
Services of America, Inc. (ASA), announced today that it has
entered into an agreement with the Department of Radiation Oncology
at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine to
embark on a Cooperative Quality Assurance Project. In this
project, the Washington University Department of Radiation Oncology
will review quality assurance activities in a number of ROSA’s
facilities and will work with ROSA to identify and build upon best
clinical practices.
Greg Merrill, President and Chief Operating Officer of ROSA,
said, “I am confident that all ROSA employees keep patient safety
at the forefront of everything they do in our centers. But we
must also continually challenge ourselves to ensure that we are
providing the best and safest patient care. We welcome the
chance to learn about ways to improve the quality of care in our
delivery of radiation therapy for our patients.”
As a nationally and internationally recognized expert in
numerous radiation therapy procedures and practices, the Department
of Radiation Oncology of Washington University in St. Louis
operates an outreach program, known as Radiation Oncology
Consulting Services (ROCS), which gathers knowledge from radiation
oncology entities in academic settings as well as hospital-based
and freestanding cancer centers and then distributes that shared
knowledge base widely within the radiation oncology industry.
To kick off the Cooperative Quality Assurance Project, the
Washington University in St. Louis’ physics team will visit several
ROSA centers in the upcoming months and will engage the staff in
discussions around imaging and treatment planning, technology
utilization, quality assurance and patient safety issues.
The Department of Radiation Oncology at the Washington
University in St. Louis School of Medicine is dedicated to
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