General Information About the Bus

Patients are greeted by a picture of the sky as they enter the Bonnie's Bus Mobile Mammography Unit.

In addition to the digital mammography machine, the 40 foot-long bus is equipped with a patient-education area, restroom and waiting area. Women whose mammograms suggest a need for further diagnosis and treatment will be guided to doctors in their home communities or to hospitals and if needed, to state-of-the-art clinical trials for patients who want access to them. The Bus is connected to a network of WV hospitals and clinics that will make it easier for women who live far from hospitals or an academic medical center to gain access to investigational drug trials.

The Bus serves women who have private insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare, and uninsured women who are participants in the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program (WVBCCSP) . With funding from grants and donations, mammograms are provided for women without coverage, so that no woman over the age of 40 is ever turned away; age 40 is the recommended age for screening mammography services.