Middletown, NY – The Spagnoli Family Cancer Center at Garnet Health Medical Center, formerly Orange Regional Medical Center, has been recognized by VisionRT with the Tattoo and Mark-free Treatment Center Award, for offering tattoo and mark-free radiation treatments to patients with cancer.
“We are extremely proud to have been honored with this award,” said Regina Toomey Bueno, Senior Administrator of Oncology Services. “Our patients appreciate that tattoos are not required for radiation at Garnet Health Medical Center. By using mark-free technology, we are pleased to offer treatments that put our patients, their needs and their safety first.”
The Tattoo and Mark-free Treatment Center Award recognizes the Spagnoli Family Cancer Center as being part of an exclusive, but growing group of tattoo and mark-free centers around the world. Using a technology known as Surface Guided Radiation Therapy (SGRT), a better treatment experience can be delivered that offers our patients significant clinical and psychosocial benefits.
The AlignRT® SGRT technology, made by VisionRT, uses 3D camera units to monitor a patient’s skin surface in real-time and compare it to the ideal position with no loss in accuracy when compared to tattoos and marks. The SGRT technology ensures that radiation is delivered only when a patient is correctly positioned, enhancing their safety and comfort. AlignRT® is non-invasive and completely non-contact, an increasingly important consideration for cancer patients, who often have weakened immune systems.
Traditional radiation therapy requires patients to receive small, often permanent tattoos on their skin in order to help the radiation therapist position them for treatment. Using AlignRT®, Garnet Health Medical Center has joined a growing number of premiere radiation oncology centers around the world offering tattoo and mark-free treatments.
To learn more about oncology services at Garnet Health Medical Center, visit www.garnethealth.org/oncology.
About Garnet Health Medical Center
Garnet Health Medical Center features seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs approximately 3,300 healthcare professionals. In addition to inpatient services, highlights of Garnet Health Medical Center include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Garnet Health Doctors with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Garnet Health Medical Center was named by Healthgrades as one of the 100 best hospitals nationally for cardiac intervention and General Surgery and was a recipient of the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Garnet Health Medical Center also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 and 2020 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ placing the hospital in the top 5 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals assessed nationwide for its superior clinical performance. It is a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing; a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7 which is the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Garnet Health Medical Center is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of Garnet Health, its corporate parent, which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies.
