AFC Ranks First in Breast Health Quality Among Free Clinics in our Region

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Arlington Free Clinic is one of 13 clinics in the Washington Metro region that have been participating in the Breast Health Quality Consortium, a program initiated and supported by Susan G. Komen for the Cure and administered by the Montgomery County Primary Care Coalition. The Consortium was created….”to reduce disparities in breast cancer mortality and quality of care for low-income and uninsured women in the region.”

The report documents three years of 1) Screening Rates by Clinic, 2) Referrals Rates by Clinic and 3) Follow-up after Abnormal Screening By Clinic – plus the national benchmarks. Arlington Free Clinic ranked #1 for all three measurements.

Read the full report here.