Let's Talk About Mobile Mammography

Cami Smith:

Welcome to Centra Scripts. Here we talk about health, wellness, and practical tips for your everyday life. I am your host, Cami Smith.

Hi, and welcome to Centra Scripts. My name is Cami Smith and I am here with Donna Lloyd, and we are in obviously a little bit of a different setting. We are in the Mammo Van. So the Mammo Van is a mobile mammography unit that will park in various places around our health system to ensure that women getting their mammogram appointments in place is as easy and as accessible as possible. And so, Donna has been driving this Mammo Van for...

Donna Lloyd:

21 years.

Cami Smith:

21 years. And so, she plays such a large role as women come in. So me, I had my first mammogram for the first time ever today, and you were the first person I saw. You helped me feel comfortable, you helped me feel at ease. You play a big role in this.

Donna Lloyd:

Yes, I do.

Cami Smith:

I want you to tell us a little bit about that. But first, tell us a little bit about you. How did you come to be a part of the Mammo Van unit?

Donna Lloyd:

Actually, I drove a school bus for Campbell County four years prior to that.

Cami Smith:

Oh, okay.

Donna Lloyd:

But I've been with Centra off and on since I was in high school. I started out in radiology as a receptionist.

Cami Smith:

Oh, okay.

Donna Lloyd:

Yeah. And then I finished high school, and then I started driving a school bus and I saw this.

Cami Smith:

Yeah.

Donna Lloyd:

So I applied for it and I got it.

Cami Smith:

I love it.

Donna Lloyd:

We used to have an old, it was a box, more like a box truck.

Cami Smith:

Like a trailer?

Donna Lloyd:

No, it was like-

Cami Smith:

Oh, like the Pace vans.

Donna Lloyd:

Yes. It's a box truck.

Cami Smith:

Yes.

Donna Lloyd:

I would drive, sit up front, and then I'd have to get outside to go to the back. But here, I could just walk.

Cami Smith:

Yeah. This is very nice.

Donna Lloyd:

We've had this since 2016.

Cami Smith:

Oh, wow.

Donna Lloyd:

Yeah.

Cami Smith:

So what would a woman do, how do you get an appointment for the Mamm Van?

Donna Lloyd:

It just depends. We go to a lot of the outlying communities. They want the dates, we give them the dates, and we send them schedules.

Cami Smith:

Okay.

Donna Lloyd:

And once a month, we go to a lot of places once a month.

Cami Smith:

Okay.

Donna Lloyd:

And businesses, we go to businesses and same thing, they've got a certain person that will take care of that schedule.

Cami Smith:

Got you.

Donna Lloyd:

They'll get all the information from the patients. And a week prior to them coming to us, we call to get an updated schedule. So, once the day we come, we go to that site, I'll go in and I'll do everything that I've got to do and then they just have their appointment times and they just come on that day.

Cami Smith:

Okay.

Donna Lloyd:

Does that make sense?

Cami Smith:

Yeah, absolutely. And it's so convenient. So, this van right now is in the parking lot of the building where I work. I was able to come in, park, put my stuff in, and then just walk outside to do something that is so important, and it's so vital for women as they're getting into certain ages of their life, or if they have certain health history in their family.

Donna Lloyd:

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