Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits
Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.
In mid-2021, a Datalinks version of the Pre-Review Questionnaire (PRQ) was provided as a resource to accredited cancer programs with upcoming 2022 site visits. As a reminder, information entered into this tool will not be transitioned into the Quality Portal (QPort).
Any program that has entered information into the Datalinks version of the PRQ must either print or save it by February 25. After this date, the link will be retired, and the information will no longer be available for your program to copy into QPort for your next site visit.
Please note:
All actions and processes related to CoC site visits in 2022 and forward are to take place in QPort only.
Programs that are resolving deficiencies received from 2020/2021 site visits will continue to submit resolution documentation through the Survey Application Record (SAR) in Datalinks until all deficiencies have been resolved; however, all other accreditation-related tasks must be completed in QPort.
The most recent version of the SAR will be available in Datalinks until late 2022. All older versions of the SAR are no longer available.
The most recent version of the Accreditation Report is available in the CoC Quality Portal under the Site Visit History section. Older Accreditation Reports are no longer available.
For further assistance, submit questions to CoC@facs.org.
CoC 100th Anniversary Interview: Former CoC Chair Alfred M. Cohen, MD, FACS, FASCRS
As part of our 100th Anniversary celebration, the CoC has developed a series of interviews with current and former CoC leaders. CoC Chair Timothy W. Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS, interviews Alfred M. Cohen, MD, FACS, FASCRS, CoC Chair from 2000 to 2004.
Oldest CoC-Accredited Programs: Rush University Cancer Center
Rush University Cancer Center in Chicago, IL, has been accredited since 1939. Being CoC accredited highlights Rush University Cancer Center's multidisciplinary approach to treating cancer as a complex group of diseases. As cancer care becomes more complex, the accreditation sends a clear message that the program's multifaceted approach delivers the highest-quality patient care.
Throughout the past century, the work of the CoC (and its predecessors, starting with the Committee for the Treatment of Malignant Diseases in 1922) has been featured in the pages of the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. The CoC has created a downloadable commemorative booklet that highlights the major Bulletin articles from each decade, along with a foreword from CoC Chair Timothy Mullett, MD, MBA, FACS. You can find the booklet on the CoC 100th Anniversary website.
Join the CoC 100th Anniversary Celebration
We invite accredited programs and member organizations to join our celebration by promoting the CoC 100th Anniversary. To help you with those effort, we have developed anniversary-themed marketing materials, including a template newsletter article and press release, posters, and social media graphics (#CoC100). The materials can be downloaded from our website. CoC-accredited programs also can access the materials through QPort, our password-protected portal, by clicking on the Resources section and scrolling to the bottom of the page for marketing resources.
In addition, we welcome your perspectives on the CoC's 100th Anniversary. Let us know what it means to you to be part of a CoC-accredited cancer program, how the accreditation process has benefited your program and your patients, or why CoC membership is important to your organization. Please send your brief (up to 500 words) perspective to mleeb@facs.org for possible inclusion in a future issue of Cancer Programs News.
