Free, Low-cost Digital Mobile Mammography

Screenings Available

BRIDGEPORT — The SWIM Women’s Imaging Center will offer the following free and low-cost digital mammography screening for women age 35 and older during the month of December:

*Wednesday, December 9, 10 am to 2 pm, Bryant School, 230 Poplar Street, Bridgeport,

* Thursday, December 10, 9 am to 3 pm, Easton Senior Center, 650 Morehouse Road, Easton,

The latest American Cancer Society guidelines recommend that all women have a mammogram by age 40, and then every year thereafter.

Mammograms are free for those who do not have health insurance, have financial limitations, and qualify for assistance. For those who do not have insurance but do not qualify for free services, mammograms are discounted. Appointments are necessary and a physician order and insurance card must be brought to the appointment.

To schedule an appointment or to find out when the mobile mammography unit will be in your area, call St Vincent’s SWIM Women’s Imaging Center at 203-576-5500. To schedule a screening site for your office, community center, school or church, call the Mobile Mammography Coordinator at 203-576-5505.

St Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound is a charitable, grass roots organization run by St Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation. For 21 years, the SWIM has had a unique niche, providing cancer education, screening, and prevention programs at low- or no-cost for the elderly and underserved.

In addition, the SWIM helps individual cancer patients on a case-by-case basis with specific needs, such as the funding of wigs and prostheses, medication assistance, free transportation to treatments and appointments, daycare scholarships, support groups, and more. The charity raises funds through events such as the SWIM Marathon, Breast Cancer Luncheon, Walk/Run for Cancer, and Prostate Cancer Celebrity Dinner.

Wherever possible, the SWIM covers costs and expenses of events through corporate sponsorships, and staffing overhead is covered by the St Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation. The SWIM’s main area of reach is eastern Fairfield County, but outreach programs extend to other areas of Connecticut with the SWIM’s Hartford Chapter and annual fundraisers for New Haven County, as well as support for Connecticut’s first responders and correction officers with cancer.

The SWIM’s Teen SmokeStoppers program has reached 120,000 children throughout the state to date. The SWIM raised $2.65 million in the 2008 fiscal year and helps more than 20,000 people annually.

For more information, contact the St Vincent’s Medical Center Foundation at 203-576-5451 or visit www.swimacrossthesound.org.