Atrium Health Navicent Launches New Mobile Mammography Screening Clinic
Atrium Health Navicent held a ribbon cutting Thursday to celebrate a new mobile mammography coach that’s now expanding access to lifesaving cancer screenings by traveling to area workplaces, schools and more.
“Taking lifesaving screening services into the community increases access, and helps ensure life — work, school, transportation or finding childcare — doesn’t prevent women from receiving a mammogram,” said Atrium Health Georgia Market President Delvecchio Finley. “The Atrium Health Navicent Mobile Mammography Coach will allow us to reach more women, detecting more cancers early when they’re easier to treat and outcomes are more favorable.”
Since its debut in January, the 35-foot mobile mammography coach has already offered screening appointments and walk-up opportunities at Central Georgia Technical College, Jones County and Wilkinson County schools, and several businesses, including large industrial sites. Funded by a congressional spending allocation, the vehicle is also available to provide care at churches, neighborhoods and other convenient locations.
Women who visit the mobile mammography coach receive a screening from a state-of-the-art, 3D digital breast imaging system that’s staffed by female technologists who are specially trained in screening mammography. The experience lasts approximately 15 minutes and is similar to a physician’s appointment. Each screening is provided in a comfortable and private environment.
Typically, mobile mammogram results will be returned within about two business days. If additional screening is needed, patients will be scheduled promptly for a follow-up appointment. Accounting for about 30 percent of all new female cancers each year, breast cancer is the second most common cancer among American women. It’s recommended that all women have a baseline screening mammogram at age 40, and in some cases, women between the ages of 35 and 39 may also need a baseline mammogram.
Businesses and organizations interested in scheduling a visit by the Atrium Health Navicent Mobile Mammography Coach are asked to call 478-633-2003.
About Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent is the leading provider of health care in central and south Georgia and is committed to its mission of elevating health and wellbeing through compassionate care. Atrium Health Navicent is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Navicent provides high-quality, personalized care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region. As part of the largest, integrated, nonprofit health system in the Southeast, it is also able to tap into some of the nation’s leading medical experts and specialists with Atrium Health, allowing it to provide the best care close to home – including advanced innovations in virtual medicine and care. Throughout its 125-year history in the community, Atrium Health Navicent has remained dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. It is also one of the leading teaching hospitals in the region, helping to ensure viability for rural health care for the next generation. For more information, please visit www.NavicentHealth.org.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. Advocate Health is nationally recognized for its expertise in heart and vascular, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs more than 160,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to redefining care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.