The nonprofit Joint Commission examines and accredits U.S. healthcare organizations for disease specific certification indicating that a hospital’s program:
“…meets the rigorous standards of the world’s preeminent accreditation and certification organization.”
Its “Gold Seal of Approval” was first given to Texas Health Harris Methodist in 2016, making it the first place in Texas to be given the brain tumor certification. Organizations often use banner printing services to publicize honors or awards they have received.
Texas Health Fort Worth issued a press release stating that Joint Commission provided the specific certification after observing and analyzing Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital’s brain tumor programs. Included in the Commission’s scrutiny were clinical practice guidelines, treatment options, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, image-guided neurosurgery, cranial-based surgical procedures, and radiosurgery.
Stated in the press release from Texas Health Fort Worth is that approximately 90,000 Americans per year are given a diagnosis of “primary brain tumor.” Moreover, 1.3 million are believed to be living with a brain tumor. The medical director of the hospital’s brain tumor program, Adrian Harvey, D.O. explained in the press release that over 70% of those tumors are non-cancerous.
This year in the Lone Star State, about 2,000 people will receive a diagnosis of cancer of the brain or nervous system.