Expert Care

The Lourdes Breast Care Center is the first comprehensive breast care center within the community, providing excellent care since 1993.

The care you receive is provided by a team of professionals who have dedicated their careers to breast health. Our breast imaging professionals have decades of experience and all of our staff nurses are credentialed breast care specialists. In addition, our center routinely surpasses the national quality benchmarks for cancer care set by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.

Nationally Recognized Care

National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) Accreditation

We are nationally recognized by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) for providing exceptional breast care. This means you'll receive the highest quality breast care, and our patient outcomes prove it. In receiving this accreditation, the NAPBC finds that we demonstrate multidisciplinary, integrated, and comprehensive delivery of quality breast care.

Magnet Facility

Lourdes is a Magnet recognized organization. Magnet Recognition for Nursing Excellence is the highest level of acknowledgement that the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association, can bestow upon healthcare organizations. In receiving this recognition, Magnet finds that Lourdes demonstrates nursing excellence in delivery of quality patient care.

Convenient Care

Lourdes is pleased to offer digital breast imaging services at locations that are convenient to you - at the Lourdes Breast Care Center on the Lourdes Hospital campus, off-site at our Vestal facility, and throughout the community with our Mission In Motion Mobile Mammography Van.

We believe in keeping you informed whether you choose to receive same day results or prefer the convenience of receiving your results in the privacy of your home.

Innovative Care

We offer:

• Minimally Invasive Breast Biopsy, since 1993
• Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, under research protocol
• Partial Breast Radiation, under research protocol
• Breast and Nipple Sparing Procedures

Lourdes now offers Tomosynthesis (3D mammography) at the Lourdes Breast Care Center.

Individualized Care

• Long term care relationships – sharing in your life story
• Risk reduction for women with an above average chance of developing breast cancer
• Spiritually centered, holistic care that sustains and enhances health