Sutter Davis Imaging Hosted Free Mammography Day, Helping 47 Uninsured Women

Sutter Davis Imaging, located at 2020 Sutter Place, Suite 102, gave uninsured women the opportunity to receive free digital screening mammograms on Oct. 19 in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Forty-seven women were seen during this free screening session.

Women will receive their results from Sutter within several days after their visit. Sutter will work to connect women who have an abnormal result to local not-for-profit agencies with which Sutter regularly partners so patients may take next steps and receive follow-up care.

Sutter’s Free Mammography Day was spearheaded at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital in 2009, where in two years’ time about 70 uninsured women were given free mammograms. Inspired by the feedback and success of the program, Sutter Diagnostic Imaging expanded it to its other locations in Davis, Elk Grove, Roseville and Sacramento in 2011, and even farther to Fairfield, Jackson and Vallejo in 2012. 

Sutter Health’s diagnostic imaging centers across the Sacramento region are dedicating every Saturday in October to offer free digital screening mammograms to uninsured women more than 40 years of age. Each of the sites quickly booked up as soon as the service was announced.