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Capital Campaign to Provide Mobile Screenings
BY DWAIN HEBDA | PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF OZARKS HEALTHCARE O
zarks Healthcare is always looking for ways to extend its reach and provide world-class levels of care throughout its service area. In sup-
port of this, the Ozarks Healthcare Foundation is undertaking a capital campaign to purchase a mo- bile mammography unit to bring screening capa- bility to rural and underserved areas. “We cover a very large market area geographi-
cally, and a lot of it is very rural,” said Josh Reeves, vice president of development and advocacy and director of facilities. “Right now, some of our clin- ics are over an hour’s drive away from a lot of peo- ple who need our medical and diagnostic services. “This unit will allow us to go out to the folks who
are in our outlying counties and give them access to mammography screenings.” The mobile mammography unit is expected to cost around $750,000 and offer the latest in diag- nostics and imaging equipment. “This is a full-service mammography unit, with 3D mammography,” Reeves said. “It basically
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functions as a clinic on wheels. This is the same type of screening that you can expect to get inside of a hospital or an outpatient imaging facility, ex- cept in this case the mobile unit comes to you.” Once put into service, the unit will be scheduled
on a regular route that visits each Ozarks clin- ic on a consistent ba- sis. As available, it will also be used for special events such as commu- nity festivals and gen- eral health fairs on an as-needed basis. “We’ll also be able
Above: The proposed mobile mammography unit, in diagnostics and imaging equipment.
This unit will allow us to
go out to the folks who are in our outlying counties and give them access to mammography screenings.
to go to businesses, schools, churches, any- one that contacts us that feels that they have a need for screening, we’ll be able to consider those requests,” Reeves said. The unit is the latest weapon in the hospital’s arsenal to provide a consistent quality of care to
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