Wake Radiology touts opening of expanded breast health center
Wake Radiology is touting the opening of an expanded breast health center in the community of Cary, North Carolina.
The private practice has provided care at the facility since 2006. However, after several years of delivering services in portions of multiple spaces, Wake Radiology has now consolidated operations onto a single floor. This has created an “easily accessible location,” designed to create an “elevated patient experience,” Wake said in a Thursday announcement.
The expanded, nearly 5,400-square-foot Cary Breast Care Center now includes individual dressing rooms attached to each mammography suite, bolstering privacy and efficiency. It also offers convenient hours to better serve patients, including a 7:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. shift on Saturday.
“In designing this space, we listened to our patients’ priorities and made sure to implement changes that would create a comfortable, private setting and a streamlined, efficient process for them,” radiologist Monica Reddy, MD, co-director of breast imaging, said in an Oct. 3 announcement.
Other services provided at the expanded center will include both screening and diagnostic mammography, breast ultrasound, stereotactic and ultrasound-guided biopsies, image-based cyst aspiration, and DEXA. Founded in 1953, Wake Radiology UNC REX Healthcare is one of the largest and oldest imaging groups in the Research Triangle, which includes Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. The practice operates 14 sites, employing over 60 radiologists, recently adding eight subspecialized physicians to its staff.
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.