The Queen’s Medical Center has earned reaccreditation from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) for 2025-2028.
The Women’s Health Center at The Queen’s Medical Center became the first NAPBC-accredited facility in Hawaii in 2009 and has since maintained accreditation through successful renewal every three years.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States after skin cancers. Programs accredited by the NAPBC follow a model for organizing and managing a breast center to facilitate multidisciplinary, integrated, and comprehensive breast cancer services. The NAPBC focuses on the spectrum of a patient’s journey with breast cancer or breast disease, including prevention, screening, treatment, and survivorship. By setting high standards, NAPBC accreditation guides breast centers in providing comprehensive breast care based on scientific evidence.
As an NAPBC-accredited institution, The Queen’s Medical Center also becomes an ACS Surgical Quality Partner. Being a Surgical Quality Partner signifies an institution’s dedication to consistently improving procedures and approaches, while maintaining a critical eye on process at every step. The Surgical Quality Partner designation lets patients know The Queen’s Medical Center is dedicated to quality and relentless self-improvement, and has been verified or accredited by the ACS. Patients can trust that the care they receive at Surgical Quality Partner hospitals adheres to the most rigorous standards in surgical quality.
“ACS Quality programs are grounded in more than a century of experience and participation is an important measure of a hospital’s surgical quality. As an ACS Surgical Quality Partner, The Queen’s Medical Center has shown a commitment providing the best possible patient care, evaluating that care in a rigorous fashion, and dedicating themselves to continuous self-improvement,” said ACS Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS.
To learn more about the Women’s Health Center, visit www.queens.org/locations/hospitals/qmc/services/womens-health-center.
