Community Clinic at St. Francis House—Siloam Springs

Community Clinic Siloam Spring Medical

Grant Award Amount: $37,792
Project: Image Worth a Lifetime
Address: P.O.B. 1066, Siloam Springs, AR 72761
Project Director: Suzann Hill

Phone: 479.524.9550
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Services Provided: Screening, Treatment, Education
Counties Served: Western Benton

Image Worth a Lifetime strives to improve the breast health of medically underserved individuals residing in Western Benton County Arkansas as well as the bordering Oklahoma counties of Adair and Delaware.  We propose to conduct a community based program taht collaborates with local medical providers to overcome financial, transportation, cultural and language barriers that prevent timely and tourtine access to early detection resources.  The project will target uninsured/underinsured low-income individuals with access to annual screening mammograms and those exhibiting breast abnormalities.

Key activities include: raising community awareness of breast cancer; educating and informing about the need for reguar breast screenings and self-exams through the distribution of bilingual literature to 1,500 individuals; providing access to breast exams, screening and diagnostic mammograms, ultrasonic breast eams, and breast biopsies to low-income/medically underserved individuals.

Increasing access to quality breast screening will positiviely impact the community by reducing the effects of breast cancer.  Image Worth a Lifetime has detected breast cancers at a rate of 2.67 per year since 2008.  Eight lives saved!