Chattanooga VA Clinic Partners With Mobile Mammography Bus

The outpatient Chattanooga VA Clinic, Chattanooga, Tennessee, recently partnered with a local hospital breast center to provide mammography services to veterans in the community via a mobile mammogram bus, according to VA News report.

“For the women’s health program, we are very excited to expand services in the form of a mobile mammogram bus to women veterans who might not have been able to come in for a mammogram,” Lynn Daugherty, nurse and women’s health program manager at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, told VA News.

The Chattanooga VA Clinic, part of the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, does not offer full-time mammogram services, the article explained. The VA Mission Act allows qualifying veterans to receive care in the community, paid for by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), when the VA is unable to provide services. Through the new partnership, veterans who receive referrals for mammography can book an appointment for the CHI Memorial MaryEllen Locher Breast Center mammography bus.

“Now, veterans can come on-site to a place that they’re already familiar with to receive their care,” Daugherty told the publication. On its first day at the clinic, the mobile clinic provided mammograms to 20 veterans, VA News reported.

Reference

Breving B. Tennessee’s new mobile mammography bus. VA News. March 14, 2024. Accessed March 26, 2024. https://news.va.gov/129303/tennessees-new-mobile-mammography-bus/