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MORGANTOWN - Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography units will be in the Northern Panhandle as part of the program’s upcoming visits to West Virginia communities.
One of the units will be in Follansbee, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 31, at Trucare Health Partners. For an appointment, call (304) 505-6045.
A unit also is scheduled to be at the Benwood McMechen Housing Authority in Benwood, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 29, and Community Health Center of NE Wetzel County in Burton on July 30. For appointments in Benwood, call (304) 233-0830, and in Burton call (304) 775-4671.
Bonnie’s Bus is a service of WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals and the WVU Cancer Institute, offering three-dimensional digital screening mammograms and breast cancer education to women.
The screening mammograms are billed to private insurance, Medicaid, or Medicare, if available. Patients who are underinsured or uninsured and meet enrollment criteria will be assisted in enrolling in the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program to cover the cost of their screening mammogram.
Uninsured women living in West Virginia who are 40 and older can receive a free screening mammogram on the Bus through grant funding and donations. A physician's order is needed for a mammogram.
Bonnie's Bus has provided more than 34,000 mammograms for women throughout West Virginia and led to the detection of more than 202 cases of breast cancer since 2009. Many of those screened are underinsured or uninsured and qualify for screening through the WVBCCSP.
Bonnie's Bus works in collaboration with a statewide partnership of clinicians, public health professionals, women's groups, and other community leaders working to help reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer in West Virginia.
For information on Bonnie's Bus, see WVUCancer.org/Bonnie.