Question: How do I check in? Pat Gaspard: At our new breast center, your registration will be the same place that you come for your appointment. There'll be three people there ready to check you in with privacy. In the new space, we've added a separate breast waiting area for imaging. It includes if you're there for screening. If you're there for a short appointment, you go in that space and you stay in that space and you leave. And then if you're there for a workup or a diagnostic, you're placed in a separate waiting room. It's a little bit more private and that's a little bit more decorated and you'll be there with other patients that are there waiting a long time as well. Question: Is there Covid screening? Kelly Kruis: We will have a screener at the door when you come in in order to do that initial temperature check and ask you some questions about if you've been exposed to COVID or anything like that. Question: What services are provided? Dr. Carrie Rochman: The services that will be provided at the new breast care center really encompass all of breast imaging with regards to mammography and ultrasound and imaging guided biopsies. The only thing that the new breast center won't offer is MRI. Our current MRI facilities will remain as they are always been. Pat Gaspard: Also we're combining services, so at this new location, we'll house surgery, oncology, survivorship, genetics, social work, hem-onc, and also infusion just for breast patients. Question: What kind of care is provided in the infusion center center? Dr. Christiana Brenin: We have six infusion beds at the new breast center. So all of our breast cancer patients will be treated literally next to us within our proximity under our eyes, watching them at all times. These infusion beds will serve to treat all of our breast cancer population, and are really only for breast cancer patients. They will be for chemotherapy, but they will also be for hydration and for blood products and whatever our patients need. Question: Are different services available in one visit? Sara Yoder: Everyone will literally be in the same building. The quality of care, the ability for different teams to collaborate on a single patient within a single visit or treatment is immense. Tamara Fisher: There are times when we have patients that need imaging after their infusion or need to meet with the breast surgeon after their infusions, and so now they'll be able to do that. Instead of going across the street or getting another appointment, they'll be able to come around the corner and they'll actually be able to see that provider. Question: Are screening services still offered at other UVA clinics? Dr. Carrie Rochman: At our current screening locations, which are Northridge and Zion's Crossroads, there'll be no change to those services. So patients can continue to get their screening mammograms at these locations if they choose. They'll continue to have access to 3D tomosynthesis, and all of their images will continue to be read by the breast imaging experts at UVA. Question: What's the clinic like inside? Dr. Christiana Brenin: It's definitely a space that's very bright, that's very positive. And I think patients would really feel more relaxed in that space than they do in a multi-story building. Tamara Fisher: I think that the patients will be very happy and very excited to walk into the building with having a new artwork and murals being painted. I think it's going to be a great experience for our patients. Kelly Kruis: Most important to me is that comfort, building that team that really starts having almost a family feel.