d is Working to Meet the Need
Providing Primary Care to Low-Income Families The Floyd Family Medicine Residency program provides a county clinic and We Care program that is available to specific low-income and uninsured populations, including a large number of Medicaid and Medicare patients.
Making Mammograms More Convenient Floyd’s Mobile Mammography Coach is equipped with state-of-the-art, digital mammography equipment and is used to reach out to the mostly rural and underserved areas around Rome. The coach provided 2,646 mammograms to women in our service area in FY 2017. Of those, 776 patients were past due for a mammogram, 142 women had never had a mammogram before and 186 screenings revealed an abnormality that required further testing. Nine women were diagnosed with cancer as a result of their visit to the mobile mammography coach. The goal of this program is to reach women who have never had a mammogram. The coach traveled 9,480 miles in 2017 to women in six Georgia counties and two Alabama counties to make mammography and clinical breast exams convenient for them. Mammography scholarships are available to qualifying individuals through Floyd Healthcare Foundation.
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