Non-VA Care Radiation Oncology Facility Profile v2.2

Dear Radiation Oncology Services Providers:

The Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act (VACAA) directed the establishment of the Veterans Choice Program (VCP) to better meet the health care needs of our Nation's Veterans. The law directs the establishment of a Veterans Choice Card benefit that provides a commitment to Veterans to receive healthcare in their communities if they live more than 40 miles away from a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical care facility. The Choice Program requires that all community-based providers must meet the VHA certification standards and must agree with the program requirements prior to rendering services to the Veterans. The National Radiation Oncology Program (NROP) of VHA has established some basic requirements for both in-house and contracted radiation oncology services to ensure quality care for our Veterans. These requirements include; practice accreditation, board-certified radiation oncologist and therapeutic medical physicist, facility credentialing for advanced radiotherapy procedures (e.g. IMRT, SRS, SBRT, and IGRT), prospective peer review, and electronic documentation of radiation treatment into CPRS (VHA Electronic Medical Record System).

Please respond to the following questions in this request for information about your practice.

If you have additional questions, please contact National Radiation Oncology Administrative Team at VHANROPAdmin@va.gov at the NROP office
National Radiation Oncology Program (11SPEC22)
Veterans Health Administration
Building 507, Room A-105
1201 Broad Rock Blvd.
Richmond, VA 23249

Thank you.

Please fill in your facility's information below and submit.

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* 1. Reason for submission

Initial Request (first time submission only)

Reconsideration

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Contact Information

Name of facility *

Contact person *

Address *

Address 2

City/Town *

State/Province *

ZIP/Postal Code *

Country

Email Address *

Phone Number *

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* 3. Other facility names and/or addresses used for current facility in the past or present?

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* 4. Is your facility currently accredited by ACR / ACRO / APEX?

ACR

ACRO

APEX

None

Other (please specify)

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* 5. If no, when does your facility intend to apply for ACR/ACRO/APEX accreditation in the future?

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* 6. Number of full time Radiation Oncologist(s) on site?

Full time?

Part time (Days/week)?

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* 7. Number of Board Certified Radiation Oncologist(s) on site?

Full time?

Part time (Days/week)?

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* 8. Number of full time Therapeutic Medical Physicist(s) on site?

Full time?

Part time (days/week)?

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* 9. Number of Board Certified Therapeutic Medical Physicist(s) on site?

Full time?

Part time (days/week)?

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* 10. Number of treatment platforms (e.g. Linacs, Tomotherapy, Cyberknife, Gammaknife)?

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* 11. Number of RTTs present for patient treatment / treatment platform?

Conventional

3D CRT / IMRT / IGRT

SBRT

SRS

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* 12. Services offered at the facility

Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)

Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)

Total Body Irradiation (TBI)

Total Skin Electron Beam

Low Dose Rate (LDR) Brachytherapy

High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy

Other (please specify)

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* 13. Is radiation oncologist present at the linac during the delivery of every SBRT and SRS treatment?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 14. Is medical physicist present at the linac during the delivery of every SBRT and SRS treatment?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 15. Do you subscribe to independent remote output check of your Linac/s (e.g. TLDs or OSLDs)?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 16. If yes, please specify the last independent remote output check date.

Date

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* 17. Are you currently credentialed by IROC - Houston for the following advanced procedures?

IMRT

SBRT

SRS

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* 18. If you are not credentialed by IROC-Houston for the above advanced procedures, please describe your end-to-end testing procedure.

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* 19. Do you treat according to ASTRO/ACR treatment guidelines for palliative care?

Yes

Other (please specify)

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* 20. Which treatment guidelines do you use in your clinic?

NCCN

Other (please specify)

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* 21. Which appropriate use criteria do you use in your clinic?

ASTRO / ACR

Other (please specify)

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* 22. Please specify the make & model # of the Treatment Delivery Systems used at your facility.

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* 23. Please specify the make and version # of the Treatment Planning Systems used at your facility.

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* 24. Name, Email address & Phone Number:

Therapeutic Medical Physicist Name:

Therapeutic Medical Physicist Email:

Therapeutic Medical Physicist Contact Phone Number:

Radiation Oncologist Name:

Radiation Oncologist Email:

Radiation Oncologist Contact Phone Number:

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* 25. Signature

By checking this box you confirm that the contents of this form are reviewed and approved by your facility Therapeutic Medical Physicist.

By checking this box you confirm that the contents of this form are reviewed and approved by your facility Radiation Oncologist.

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* 26. Signature Date

Date / Time

Date