MARTINSBURG, W.VA. – Bonnie’s Bus, a digital mammography center on wheels, will visit the Eastern Panhandle in September, offering three-dimensional (3D) digital mammograms and breast care education to area women.
WVU Medicine East and the WVU Cancer Institute are sponsoring the Berkeley County visit. Bonnie’s Bus will be parked at Trinity Temple Church of God, 127 North Tuskegee Drive in Martinsburg from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 15.
A service of the WVU Cancer Institute and WVU Medicine in Morgantown, the 45-foot Bonnie’s Bus is a state-of-the-art digital mammography unit that brings the most advanced digital mammography to communities in West Virginia.
The mammograms are billed to private insurance, Medicaid, or Medicare, if available. Women age 40 or older who do not have insurance will be covered by the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program or through special grant funds.
A physician’s order is required in order to schedule a mammogram, and space is limited. For more information or to schedule a Bonnie’s Bus appointment, call 304-264-1287, ext. 32027 (Sam).
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 in West Virginia from breast cancer. The program was funded through a generous gift from Jo and Ben Statler in memory of Jo’s mother, Bonnie Wells Wilson, a breast cancer victim.