UVA Health Charlottesville-Based Mobile Mammography Unit
The UVA Health Breast Care Center and the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging recently received a new mobile mammography unit that offers patients a comfortable experience as well as cutting-edge 3D mammography technology. The unit screened its first patients on February 27, and is now on the road four or five days each week, screening patients at locations up to three hours away from Charlottesville.
The new unit offers patients the same state-of-the-art Hologic 3D mammography system that is in place at UVA Health’s permanent mammography locations. That means our mobile mammography patients experience the exact same imaging quality and comfort as our other patients. The new unit’s smaller size (its 11 feet shorter than the previous unit) allows it to travel to new locations and reach patients the previous unit couldn’t, thus expanding access to UVA Health’s world-class care to more people in our communities.
As always, all mammograms performed on the mobile unit are read by UVA Health’s subspecialty-trained breast imaging radiologists, who have the highest level of training and expertise possible in interpreting breast images.
Learn more about the unit and view its regular central Virginia screening locations. Or watch Mobile Mammography Coordinator Amy Pennington and Division Chief of Breast Imaging Timothy Rooney, MD, discussing the new mobile mammography coach on NBC29.
Photos by Cecelia Rooney.
