Latest Reports
Two Mobile Mammography Screening Trailers Delivered




May 26th 2009, Oneonta, NY: Medical Coaches Inc., worldwide leader and manufacturer of highly specialized mobile vehicles, recently delivered two 53’ Custom Mammography and Women’s Health Screening Trailers to the Alberta Cancer Center in Alberta Canada. The Mobile Semi-Trailers were funded as a part of a community service project called “Weekend to end Breast Cancer Walks” in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver. Montreal, Ottowa, Toronto.
The new coaches will benefit thousands of women in the fight against breast cancer with routine screening in rural areas of Canada where the service would not always be available. The five-year survival rate for breast cancer in its earliest stages is 97 percent, while at later stages it is just over 23 percent. By bringing these services to disadvantaged and underserved populations in rural areas, Alberta Cancer Foundation will help to reduce the number of cancer deaths that occur every year. The Alberta Cancer Foundation will serve over 100 plus locations with the two new screening trailers from Medical Coaches.
The Twin 53’ coaches come equipped with Hologic Dimension Digital Mammography Systems, patient education and waiting areas with high-definition television, a fully equipped laboratories, custom cabinetry, on board generator, patient lift gate. It is truly a modern hospital screening office on wheels.
About Medical Coaches: Founded in 1949, Medical Coaches Inc, was responsible for the very first mobile, multi-phasic, medical delivery of its kind anywhere in the world. Since then, they have delivered over 20,000 coaches to over 110 countries world wide, and provide a wide variety of mobile specialty vehicles covering many modalities such as: Mobile MRI, Mobile PET/CT, Mobile Mammography, Mobile X-ray, Mobile CT, Homeland Security, Mobile Television, Mobile Health and Screening Units, Mobile Instrumentation, etc. Each coach is custom made from the ground up. Medical Coaches is ISO 9001 Certified since 1995 and is a privately held company located in Oneonta, NY. For more information about their products and services please go to www.medcoach.com ; call 607-432-1333; or email csmith@medcoach.com