ABOUT US
For over 30 years of business, Quality Assurance Services, INC. (QAS) has grown significantly in number of physicists, has expanded our geographic presence throughout California, and has broadened our scope of practice to include the entire field of diagnostic imaging.
Alongside these developments, QAS has conscientiously maintained our commitment to serve our growing number of partners and to meet their ever-changing and increasing needs.
We strongly believe: "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."
QAS at work in the early days.
Our Story
THEN
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Our journey started in mid-1989 when Glenn Deacon and his wife Susan decided to strike out on their own and create Quality Assurance Services operating out of Reno, NV. In 1994 the company was reorganized as Quality Assurance Services, Inc in San Diego, California.
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For the first few years Glenn was the physicist and Susan was the administrator. The company grew over time and in 1996 their son Russ joined the company as a second physicist. For the next several years QAS provided medical physics equipment testing mainly in San Diego and in Los Angeles. By 2004 QAS had grown substantially, and Shelley Becker joined the QAS team. Shelley’s extensive background in health physics and nuclear medicine allowed QAS to extend services to the nuclear medicine and PET communities. From that time onward, year after year, QAS has expanded its team to meet the increasing needs for diagnostic medical and health physics support services.
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& NOW
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Your QAS team:
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Board Certified Diagnostic Medical Physicists
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Board Certified Nuclear Medical Physicist
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Radiological Health Physicists
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Nuclear Health Physicist
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Radiation Safety Specialist
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Sonography Specialist
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Administrative Support staff
Our partner facilities extend throughout California and include an extensive group of hospitals, medical centers, and outpatient imaging centers, and numerous physician offices and clinics.
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In addition to imaging equipment QC testing, we also offer a variety of associated services:
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Radiation Safety Officers at more than twenty (20) medical facilities throughout California
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Radiation shielding evaluations for radiation-producing equipment installations.
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Assistance in radioactive materials license applications
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Assistance in obtaining nuclear medicine hot lab equipment
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Decommissioning of nuclear medicine and PET restricted spaces
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Assistance in ACR and TJC and other accreditation submissions for CTs, for MRIs, for PET scanners, for Gamma Cameras, and for Ultrasound units.
All this and so much more! We invite you to hover over "SERVICES" in the navigation pane above for more information about your particular area of interest.
Summarizing: With offices located in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Fresno, QAS is the largest diagnostic medical physics group resident in California and is a true “one stop shop” for all things associated with diagnostic imaging.
