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Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
Release date: Sept. 6, 2007
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Yale-New Haven and Hill Health Center partner on first digital mammography van in Connecticut
NEW HAVEN –Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), in partnership with Hill Health Center (HHC) and Yale Cancer Center, today dedicated the state’s first digital mammography van. YNHH and HHC representatives unveiled the new 40-foot-long van today at Hill Health Center on Columbus Avenue in New Haven.
The van is the only mammography van of its type in Connecticut as well as one of only about two dozen digital mobile mammography vans in the United States.
“Yale-New Haven has had a mammography van program for 20 years,” said Marna P. Borgstrom, YNHH president and CEO. “Providing women with mammography screening services in their communities and at their places of business is convenient, saves time and encourages preventive health care. We are happy to launch this new phase of the program with a new digital van and a new partnership with Hill Health Center.”
According to Gary F. Spinner, chief operating officer of Hill Health Center, “Our population of medically underserved patients suffers disproportionately from cancers that are treatable with earlier detection. This collaborative project should be instrumental in improving the cancer screening of the women we serve.” Cornell Scott, chief executive officer, applauded the collaboration between YNHH and Hill Health Center, stating “these types of partnerships that bring together the strengths of our two organizations provide tremendous benefit to the community.”
The van, staffed by certified mammography technologists and outfitted with state-of-the art digital technology, will travel throughout the state to various pre-scheduled locations such as businesses, health facilities, senior centers and shopping areas providing mammogram screenings to women. The van is scheduled at each of Hill Health Center’s five major locations on a monthly basis.
Digital mammography stores an electronic image of the breast directly in a computer, allowing the recorded data to be enhanced or magnified for further evaluation. The information from the screenings conducted on the van is transmitted to the hospital and interpreted by dedicated breast imaging radiologists at the Yale-New Haven Breast Center.
The American Cancer Society cites that one in every eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime and routine screening is the best known method in its early detection.
The digital mobile mammography service is offered Monday through Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. To schedule the van for a location or to make an appointment, call the Yale-New Haven Breast Center at 203.688.6800 or visit www.ynhh.org or Hill Health Center at 203.503.3094.
Yale-New Haven Hospital is a 944-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving as the primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. Yale-New Haven was founded as the fourth voluntary hospital in the U.S. in 1826 and today, the hospital complex includes Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, with a combined medical staff of about 2,400 university and community physicians practicing in more than 100 specialties. See www.ynhh.org for additional information.
Hill Health Center was founded in 1968 to provide health care to poor and disadvantaged people. Last year it served 28,000 people who made more than 165,000 visits. Its services include medical, dental, behavioral health, medical specialists and special programs, such as Health Care for the Homeless. Services are provided at 17 sites to people from more than 100 towns and cities in Connecticut. One in every five Center patients is uninsured.
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Last revised: Sept. 6, 2007 (dh)
