Prevention Pays
Northern Kentucky Health Department Prevention Pays
The Northern Kentucky Health Department, in partnership with the Northern Kentucky Women’s Cancer Coalition, is making it easier for eligible women to receive important screenings for breast cancer and cervical cancer.
On designated “Prevention Pays,” cancer screening days, held on a rotating schedule at the Health Department’s county health centers in Boone, Campbell, Grant and Kenton counties, eligible women are able to have an annual exam including a pap smear, pelvic exam and clinical breast exam performed by a nurse practitioner. Then, they can have a mammogram in the mobile mammography unit from either St. Elizabeth Medical Center or The St. Luke Hospitals and The Jewish Hospital, which will be parked outside the health center.
To be eligible for the screening, women must be between the ages of 40 and 64, have an income below 250 percent of the federal poverty guidelines (currently $24,500 for a single-person household and $50,000 for a four-person household), and not be enrolled in a private health insurance plan, Medicare or Medicaid.
Appointments are required for the screenings, and women are asked to schedule their appointments in advance.
Upcoming dates and locations:
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January 16, 2007, at the Kenton County Health Center, 2002 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky. For more information or appointments, please call 859.431.3345.
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February 23, 2007, at the Boone County Health Center, 7505 Burlington Pike, Florence, Ky. For more information or appointments, please call 859.363.2060.
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May 4, 2007, at the Campbell County Health Center, 12 E. Fifth St., Newport, Ky. For more information or appointments, please call 859.431.1704.
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July 27, 2007, at the Kenton County Health Center, 2002 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky. For more information or appointments, please call 859.431.3345.
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August 10, 2007, at the Boone County Health Center, 7505 Burlington Pike, Florence, Ky. For more information or appointments, please call 859.363.2060.
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August 31, 2007, at the Grant County Health Center, 234 Barnes Road, Williamstown, Ky. For more information or appointments, please call 859.824.5074.
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November 2, 2007, at the Campbell County Health Center, 12 E. Fifth St., Newport, Ky. For more information or appointments,please call 859.431.1704.
Besides the designated screening days, the Health Department offers to offer daily appointments for annual women’s health exams at each of its county health centers. An average of 700 Northern Kentucky women receive annual exams and/or mammogram vouchers from the Health Department each year. Through the Kentucky Women’s Cancer Screening Program, the Health Department has been offering subsidized cancer screening services since 2002.
For more information on the Prevention Pays screening days or other women’s health programs at the Northern Kentucky Health Department, please call 859.341.4264 or visit
http://www.nkyhealth.org.