UH Mobile Health Screenings Program Brings Advanced Screenings to You

The University Hospitals Mobile Health Screenings Program makes it easy to bring advanced screenings to you.

The UH Mobile Health Unit was on-site to provide advanced 3-D mammograms at UH Elyria Medical Center/Elyria City Hall on Mon., Oct 18.

The Unit provides life-saving services, considering:

• One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.
• When breast cancer is found early, the survival rate is nearly 100%.
• Experts recommend that women begin annual mammography screenings at age 40.
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  The inside the UH Mobile Health Unit.

  3-D mammograms (tomosynthesis) increase the detection of invasive cancer by 41% and decrease call-backs by 15%.

• Screening mammograms are usually covered at 100% by most insurance providers.

The five-year relative survival rate of women with localized stage of breast cancer is close to 100 percent. Source: American Cancer Society

Additional screenings offered included: Blood pressure, Cholesterol and glucose blood tests and Osteoporosis (bone density).

Host a UH Mobile Health Screenings Event

University Hospitals is proud to partner with corporate and community organizations in Northeast Ohio to offer the convenience of onsite health screenings events. They will bring their fully equipped, professionally staffed mobile unity to your location to provide 3-D Mammograms (Tomosynthesis), the most advanced screening mammogram available, plus cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure and osteoporosis screenings.

To schedule a full-day event, contact program director Nicole Edwards at Nicole.Edwards@UHhospitals.com. She can assist you with scheduling an event, scheduling mammograms and obtaining the required paperwork and determining which screenings you would like to offer.