Northern Light C.A. Dean Hospital 364 Pritham Ave, Greenville, ME 04441 Project Director: Marie Vienneau Contact Phone Number: 207.695.5271 Email Address: mvienneau@northernlight.org https://www.northernlighthealth.org/C-A-Dean-Hospital Northern Light C.A. Dean (CA Dean) must close its hospital-based mammography service at the end of 2021. The mammography equipment is 15 years old and at the end of its clinically useful life. The images are no longer of the highest clinical quality. In 2017 C.A. Dean Hospital performed 450 mammograms, this has decreased to a volume of 160 per year due to the age of the mammography equipment. The rural mobile mammography vehicle will be located at C.A. Dean Hospital and travel to rural locations in Piscataquis and Somerset Counties providing local access to mammography services. The Northern Light C.A. Dean Rural Mobile Mammography Project will provide 3-D mammography screening services in rural locations throughout Piscataquis and portions of Somerset Counties in Maine via the use of a purpose-built mobile mammography vehicle with a state-of-the-art mobile mammography screening suite installed. The unit is fully mobile and able to generate its own power as well as operate outside of CA Dean’s or Mayo’s Wi-Fi infrastructure by storing exams and transmitting them upon returning to either CA Dean or Mayo. Congressionally Directed Spending will cover the cost of a vehicle designed for mobile mammography services and the cost of the mammography and information systems (IS) support equipment. Project costs are detailed in the Equipment List below: mobile mammography vehicle – $622,223; 3-D mammography equipment – $332,491; movable weatherproof accessway – $30,000; and needed misc. support equipment such as IS technology – $3,100, and wheelchairs – $14,200. The total project request is $1,002,014 From its home base at CA Dean in Greenville, Maine, the mobile mammography unit will travel throughout Piscat
aquis County and nearby areas to health centers, community centers, churches, and similar locations on a set schedule to conduct mammography screenings. During the region’s harsh winters, the unit will reside at CA Dean to protect the sensitive equipment from damage, while continuing to serve the Greenville area, which lacks other mammography resources. The movable weatherproof walkway will shelter patients as they transfer from CA Dean to the mobile unit when parked there. The unit will also be able to overnight at CA Dean’s sister hospital, Northern Light Mayo Hospital, in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine as needed to download exam data into Northern Light Health’s picture archiving and communication system (PACS), a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities, before departing to continue serving rural communities.