DuPage Medical Cancer Program earns national accreditation, commendation

DOWNERS GROVE - DuPage Medical Group has been recognized with a 3 year accreditation with commendation as a Freestanding Cancer Center from the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer.

The level of accreditation is the CoC's highest distinction for quality of care and ensures that DMG's Integrated Oncology Program exceeds all standard requirements.

DMG is the only accredited Freestanding Cancer Center in Illinois.

The CoC Accreditation Program was established to help ensure that cancer patients receive high-quality, comprehensive and multidisciplinary patient-centered care. It provides DMG the framework to improve its quality of patient care through various cancer-related programs that focus on the full continuum of cancer care from prevention, to diagnosis through treatment and survivorship.

"I am extremely proud of our physicians and staff for all the work they have done leading up to this accreditation," says Dr. Brian Moran, Radiation Oncologist and Cancer committee chair. "When we started creating the Integrated Oncology Program, we brought together a true multidisciplinary team of highly-trained specialists and state-of-the-art imaging. This CoC-accreditation is a great accomplishment and illustration of care that I am proud to be part of at DMG. "

The CoC establishes quality-of-care standards for cancer programs nationwide. To achieve and maintain the voluntary accreditation, programs go through an application process and are reviewed every three years. Programs must meet 34 quality standards and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care. Accreditation through the CoC is recognized by major medical and health care organizations like the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

CoC-accredited programs offer patients a multidisciplinary approach to cancer treatment that requires collaboration among surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, and other specialists. Patients have access to information on clinical trials and new treatments, genetic counseling, and support services, including psychosocial support, a patient navigation process, oncologic palliative care and a survivorship-care plan that tracks patient care and seeks to improve cancer survivors' quality of life.