Strawberry Hill imaging center receives ACR Lung Cancer Screening designation

Baptist Health Paducah's Strawbery Hill Imaging Center has received the American College of Radiology Lung Cancer Screening designation.

The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center designation is a voluntary program that recognizes facilities that have committed to practice safe, effective diagnostic care for people at the highest risk for lung cancer.

Low-dose CT screening for lung cancer, like mammograms, are annual exams for safely and efficiently saving thousands of lives each year.

This location is now another resource for patients needing a low-dose CT screening. Baptist Health Paducah's Imaging Center on the hospital's campus received accreditation in 2014.

Lung cancer accounts for 25 percent of all cancers and has the lowest 5-year survival rate. Low-dose CT screenings take less than two minutes and are covered by most insurance plans based on the following criteria:

• 50 to 80-years-old
• 20-pack year history of smoking
• Current or former smoker who has quit within the last 15 years.

Anyone that meets this criteria or needs more information is asked to contact Lauren Sonnek at 270-415-7631.