October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Together We Can Knock Out Breast Cancer is the theme for West Virginia University Hospitals-East’s upcoming discount mammogram clinics to be held at both City Hospital in Martinsburg and Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Ranson.
These special clinics will be held each Saturday in October at City Hospital’s Breast Care Center and Jefferson Memorial Hospital’s Women’s Imaging Center. The clinics will be held from 7:30 am – 4 pm at City Hospital and 8 am until 3:30 pm at Jefferson Memorial Hospital.
These screening mammograms, featuring digital technology, will be offered at a discounted community service fee of $60 (cash, check or credit card only) which includes the test and the interpretation by a radiologist.
“This is the fourth year that we’ve offered our discount mammogram clinics, and over that period of time we have performed more than 500 screenings,” stated Teresa McCabe, vice president of marketing and development for WVU Hospitals-East. “Many of these patients told us they couldn’t afford the test and would have put off scheduling a mammogram had we not held the clinics,” she added.
WVUH-East’s discounted mammogram program is open to anyone age 35 and older. Although a physician’s order is not required to participate in the mammogram clinics, any patients without a physician will be assigned a physician to receive the test results.
All patients participating in the screening mammogram clinics must register in advance.
To schedule a screening mammogram at City Hospital, phone the community wide scheduling department at 304.264.1297. To schedule a screening mammogram at Jefferson Memorial Hospital, phone the community wide scheduling department at 304.724.5647.
