Physician Group Leads the Way on Expanded Breast Care Center at Beaumont, Wayne

Drs. Harris, Birkhill, Wang, Songe and Associates, PC has led the way in ensuring women in Wayne County have access to the life-saving, leading-edge breast care technology and services they need and deserve.

The multi-specialty private practice radiology group generously gave a $1 million lead gift for the Beaumont Breast Care Center at Wayne, which will undergo expansion to become a comprehensive breast care center, accommodating screening, diagnostic services and surgical consultations all under one roof, improving the patient care experience.

Patient volume has increased nearly 30 percent at this location in the past five years, and more than 11,000 women received breast care services at this location from June 2018 to June 2019.

The new center will be nearly double the center’s current size of 2,900 square feet, and will be located directly on the hospital campus, rather than across the street. Four exam rooms will be available for onsite consultation with a breast surgeon, eliminating the need for patients to be shuttled across the street for surgical procedures.

The increased space will also allow for the center to expand from two to three mammography rooms, adding two new digital breast tomosynthesis (3D mammography) units, and to expand from two to three ultrasound rooms.

These screening tools can diagnose breast cancer at its earliest stages, when it is most treatable: more than 90 percent of women diagnosed with cancer at the earliest stage survive for at least five years, compared to around 15 percent of women diagnosed with the most advanced stage of the disease.

These additional spaces in the expanded center will reduce wait times for these critical screening appointments and will allow the center to offer more free screening and community services — and with many patients falling into the high-risk category, this truly could have a life-saving impact. The center will also feature a bone density suite and a large, comfortable and welcoming reception area.

“The compassion and generosity of Drs. Harris, Birkhill, Wang, Songe and Associates, PC is truly going to make a large difference in the lives of so many women and their families in our community,” said Margaret Cooney Casey, president of the Beaumont Health Foundation.

“We are so thankful for their partnership and leadership.”