The UF Health Breast Center – Jacksonville provides integrated care for breast cancer patients in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, and now that determined focus is receiving national recognition.

In August, the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, a program administered by the American College of Surgeons, granted accredited status to the UF Health Breast Center – Jacksonville. The accreditation signifies UF Health’s compliance with NAPBC standards that recognize a breast center’s leadership, clinical services, research, community outreach, professional education and quality improvement for patients.

Accreditation by the NAPBC is granted only to those programs committed to providing the best possible care to patients with breast cancer. The NAPBC provides the structure and resources to develop and operate a high-quality breast center and accredited program. Breast centers seeking NAPBC accreditation undergo a site visit every three years.

As an NAPBC-accredited center, the UF Health Breast Center – Jacksonville is dedicated to maintaining levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive, patient-centered, multidisciplinary care, resulting in outstanding service for patients with breast disease.

“We are incredibly proud of this recognition,” said Shahla Masood, MD, FCAP, a professor and chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, and medical director of the UF Health Breast Center – Jacksonville. “We believe bringing together experts in multiple specialties who can collaborate on finding the best options for our patients and then design a personalized therapy for each of them is the key component of their treatment.”

UF Health patients can be confident that their breast care team includes experts from a variety of disciplines who are committed to working together to provide the best care available throughout their entire course of treatment. Patients receiving care at an NAPBC-accredited center also have access to information on clinical trials and new
treatment options, genetic counseling, and patient-centered services such as psychosocial support, rehabilitation services and survivorship care.