Hanford mammogram clinic seeing more patients after opening in 2024

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tasha Hall regularly shops astatine the Walmart connected 12th Avenue and Centennial Drive. That's erstwhile she came crossed Mammogram Now.

"At first, I thought it was strange," said Hall. "I was like, 'A mammogram session successful the store?' But past I was like, 'I stake that's much convenient than going to the hospital.'"

Hall had a caller mammogram astatine the clinic. She recovered it casual and convenient. She says due to the fact that of agelong hold times, she's had to cancel erstwhile mammogram appointments astatine different aesculapian offices.

"In the past, that has discouraged maine from adjacent wanting to get my mammogram due to the fact that of the lines," said Hall. "That's wherefore for me, making appointments astatine my section market store is easier."

The Hanford bureau is Mammogram Now's 2nd location, with the archetypal being successful Delaware. The session says it's averaging 12 exams per time since opening its doors past year.

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"The referring physicians are sending them retired here, and it's helping patients go much aware," said Ana Morales, a mammography tech astatine the clinic. "That convenience is allowing radical to travel successful and person their exam done that would different propulsion retired their exams."

Women who privation to get screened tin either locomotion successful oregon marque an appointment. Morales believes having the session wrong Walmart brings much consciousness to bosom crab prevention.

"It feels truly bully to help, to assistance rapidly and to get patients screened arsenic soon arsenic possible," said Morales.

Women tin besides opt for an Enhanced Breast Cancer Detection, which uses artificial quality to pinpoint immoderate areas of involvement oregon abnormalities. Hall encourages different women to get screened regularly.

"We women truthful often get truthful engaged taking attraction of our loved ones," said Hall. "We hide to instrumentality attraction of ourselves, truthful I consciousness similar it's precise important."

Experts accidental preventative medicine tin beryllium the cardinal to a steadfast aboriginal and agelong life.

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