New walk-in mammogram clinic located inside Hanford Wal-Mart

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Inside the Walmart Super Center Store successful Hanford, women tin locomotion successful to Mammogram Now and get a screening done.

Irene Medina came from Corcoran to get her mammogram. It was her archetypal clip visiting the clinic, "At first, it was like, really? In walmart? But, well, I thought, I'll effort it."

The radical Radnet manages the Mammogram Now session wrong Walmart. It launched it backmost connected August 1st.

The Hanford determination is their 2nd tract to open, with the archetypal being successful Delaware.

Marilyn Schubert, Radnet's determination operations manager, said, "This is simply a large aviator task that Radnet has partnered with Walmart and is bringing accessibility, convenience, and cost-effective bosom screening exams to women successful the community."

Inside the Mammogram Now clinic, women cheque successful astatine the beforehand desk, wherever they are past taken to a abstraction to prep for their mammogram screening and caput into the exam room.

Ana Morales has been a mammography tech for 20 years. She wants to marque the women coming successful to get their screening consciousness astatine ease.

She knows the process tin beryllium nerve-wracking-especially for first-timers, "Comfort is simply a large thing; it's a batch little uncomfortable than it utilized to be."

Since opening past month, Mammogram Now has seen galore patients travel successful to get their screenings.

Schubert tells Action News that having the session wrong Walmart is convenient and provides much women's wellness services successful the area.

"We person specified an underserved colonisation successful this tiny agrarian assemblage that it's a large happening to have."

With Breast Cancer Awareness period astir the corner, wellness experts accent that aboriginal detection is key.

Irene Medina knows, "Cancer tin deed astatine immoderate time."

Getting her mammogram done each twelvemonth gives her bid of mind.