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Fall 2008

New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center is First New Mexico Facility Accredited for Bone Density Testing

New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center has been awarded accreditation from the Commission on the Accreditation of Skeletal Assessment Facilities (CASAF).  It is the first and so far the only facility in New Mexico to receive this accreditation. CASAF is an international accreditation program developed by the international Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD).

 In earning the CASAF accreditation, skeletal assessment facilities communicate to their community and patients that their facility has attained a significant measure of excelence in the provision of skeletal assessment services.

New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center is honored to receive facility accreditation from CASAF and is pleased to be recognized in the skeletal health assessment community for providing outstanding services in accordance with international standards and benchmarks in this field.

“Earning CASAF accreditation tells the Albuquerque community and potential patients that New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center has attained a measure of excellence and quality performance in this field.”

New Mexico Clinical Research & Osteoporosis Center, Inc. is an organization dedicated to clinical research and the diagnosis and care of osteoporosis.

CASAF Accreditation Standards cover a wide variety of topics including personnel, DXA quality assurance and quality control, scan acquisition and analysis, scan interpretation and reporting, patient and referring physician education, privacy, business ethics and regulatory requirements.

E. Michael Lewiecki, MD                                    
Lance A. Rudolph, MD

This page update 10/09/08