News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2013
MEDIA CONTACT: Stephanie Poyant
Public Information Officer
Southcoast Health System
Office: 508-973-5280
Cell: 774-634-1460
poyants@southcoast.org
www.southcoast.org/news/releases/
Southcoast Health System offers radiology and laboratory services at
HealthFirst
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Southcoast™ Health System now offers both radiology and
laboratory services at HealthFirst Family Care Center located at 387 Quarry Street in Fall River.
Southcoast Radiology Services provides comprehensive outpatient radiology testing
including digital mammography, X-ray, ultrasound, and bone density scanning.
Also located at the site is Southcoast Laboratory Services which offers full-service
diagnostic laboratory testing with extended hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday; and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
For more information on the services provided by Southcoast Radiology Imaging
Services or the Southcoast Laboratory Services, visit www.southcoast.org/radiology or
www.southcoast.org/lab.
About Southcoast Radiology and Imaging Services
Southcoast Health System offers first-rate radiology imaging services at 14 sites
throughout the region, including all three Southcoast Hospitals sites — Charlton Memorial
Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham —
and the Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care, giving patients easy access to high-quality services.
Southcoast Radiology Imaging Services performs more than 400,000 radiology procedures each
year. The radiologists, technologists, managers and support staff are dedicated to providing
superior patient care and customer service.
In addition to a 3T MRI scanner, Southcoast Radiology Imaging Services provides the
most advanced technology available in the region. Southcoast offers low-dose 128-slice CT
scanner and the region's largest digital mammography system. Additional services include Bone
Densitometry (DEXA scanning), Computed Tomography (CT scan), PET/CT, Diagnostic
Radiology (X-ray), Interventional Radiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Digital
Mammography, Non-Invasive Vascular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound.
To learn more about the latest radiology technology at Southcoast, visit
www.southcoast.org/radiology.
About Southcoast Laboratory Services
Southcoast Laboratory Services provides full service quality, diagnostic testing 7 days a
week, 24 hours a day. The array of services available include the Southcoast Blood Bank,
chemistry, hematology, immunology, microbiology, toxicology, cytology and pathology.
These services are provided at 20 Southcoast sites throughout the region. Inpatient
services are provided at all three Southcoast hospital locations— Charlton Memorial Hospital in
Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham — as well as
various outpatient sites including nursing homes, physician offices, VNA's and community health
centers.
For more information about services provided by Southcoast Laboratory Services visit:
www.southcost.org/lab.
About Southcoast Health System & Southcoast Hospitals Group
Southcoast Health System is a community based health delivery system with multiple
access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It includes the three hospitals that make up Southcoast
Hospitals Group — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke’s Hospital in New
Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.
Southcoast provides advanced clinical services, such as open heart surgery, angioplasty
and heart rhythm services, comprehensive cancer care, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery,
orthopedic surgery, advanced imaging services and is the only provider of maternity services in
the region. Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of
the community to provide services. More information is available online at www.southcoast.org.
Connect to Southcoast through social media at www.southcoast.org/connect/.
Southcoast™ is a registered trademark of Southcoast Health System Inc.
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