TidalHealth receives grant funding for Mobile Mammography and Wellness Program

SALISBURY, Md. – TidalHealth recently received $645,000 in grant funding for its Mobile Mammography and Wellness Program.

The grant comes from the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission.

The funding helps expand health care access in under-served communities.

At TidalHealth, officials are using the money to staff and operate its Mammogram Van, which is expected to launch this fall.

The van will visit communities and workplaces throughout the lower Eastern Shore, providing preventative breast cancer screenings for women.

“This grant is so important because in a rural area such as the lower Eastern Shore, we know that many people are going without preventative screenings, particularly women with the breast cancer screening and this is really going to bring access to people much more readily,” said Kat Rodgers, TidalHealth Director of Community Health Initiatives.

Without the van, TidalHealth officials said some people would need to drive an hour or more one-way just to get a mammogram.