SERVICES IN ULTRASOUND AT LCC

• Adult Echocardiography (Heart Ultrasound).
• 3 Dimensional Echocardiography.
• Stress Echocardiograms, including Dobutamine Stress Test Exams.
• Contrast Echocardiograms
• Carotid Ultrasounds
• Venous Duplex Imaging
• Arterial Duplex Imaging
• Ankle/Brachial Indices

Our Echo Lab, accredited as of July 29, 3004, is one of only 14 echo laboratories in the state (this includes hospitals) to achieve this status. It is one of four accredited labs here in Lexington, KY.

An accredited echo lab ensures high quality patient care and promotes healthcare by providing a mechanism to encourage and recognize the provision of quality echocardiographic diagnostic evaluations.

In addition, accredited labs assess every aspect of their daily operations and its impact on the quality of healthcare provided to their patients.

Accreditation counts because

1. It Demonstrates a strong commitment to quality care.
2. It allows laboratories to identify and correct potential problems.
3. Promotes self assessment.
4. It provides confidential peer review which helps establish quality studies for the patients with data that can be reproduced.
5. It is tied to reimbursement.
6. Medicare now requires a lab to be accredited for reimbursement of Echo in an increasing number of states.