HealthPLEX offers walk-in mammograms
Monongahela Valley Hospital’s HealthPLEX Imaging, WillowPointe Plaza, 800 Plaza Drive, Suite 170, Belle Vernon, is offering walk-in weekday mammograms without a prescription between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
“After some women have their annual gynecological exams, they walk around with their mammogram prescriptions in their purses for months, never finding the time for the screenings, while others may not even see their physicians annually to obtain a prescription,” said Mary Ann Konsugar, a registered diagnostic medical sonographer and HealthPLEX Imaging manager.
“We want to make it as convenient as possible for women in the region to have their mammograms.”
HealthPLEX Imaging offers 3-D mammograms, also known as digital breast tomosynthesis, that captures a series of consecutive images from different angles across the arc of the breast to produce three-dimensional slice images.
The slices enable radiologists to examine breast tissue one layer at a time instead of viewing all of the layers together as a flat image. An abnormality that is hidden behind tissue in one image may be visible in another image at a slightly different angle. Most insurance carriers now cover 3-D mammograms.
For more information, call 724-379-1900.