San Francisco General Hospital has been awarded a $10 million grant from Avon Products Foundation to build a state-of-the-art women’s imaging center. With the addition of digital mammography equipment, the public institution expects to increase the number of annual breast screening exams it conducts for low-income women from 4,800 to 9,600. With the center's current set-up, the wait for a mammogram can be as long as four months, according to hospital officials.
A portable building on the current campus is scheduled to open toward the end of 2002. Radiologists at the hospital’s partner, University of California, San Francisco, will read many of the films off-site.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
October 9, 2001
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