Recently, the Grove City Medical Center has “come into its own as a provider of specialized women’s health services,” according to CEO Robert C. Jackson Jr.

Several significant technology upgrades, including the implementation of digital mammography and minimally invasive and stereotactic breast biopsies, mean superior accuracy and far faster turnaround times for these advanced diagnostic services.

“We’ve invested in the most up-to-date equipment available,” Jackson said, “and most importantly, we’ve backed it up with outstanding professional talent.”

Considering nearly 10 percent of all women will, at some in their lives, experience a breast abnormality, and 1.6 million breast biopsies are performed every year in the United States, the hospital is responding to an ever-growing need.

Complementing the hospital’s Medical Imaging Department with women’s imaging specialist Deborah Troy, M.D., of Brighton Radiology Associates, the group provides radiology services for the medical center. Dr. Troy, a board-certified radiologist, has a special interest in breast imaging and has performed several hundred stereotactic mammographically guided breast biopsy procedures.

General surgeons Drs. Armando Sciullo and Charles Majchrzak are performing minimally invasive breast biopsies with the new Mammotome vacuum-assisted breast biopsy technology. The procedure, which takes about an hour and can be performed in the office, leaves a wound small enough to be covered by a Band-Aid.

“This procedure is a huge advancement in breast biopsies,” said Dr. Sciullo. “We’ve reduced the turnaround time from several weeks to a few days,” he said. “And to our patients with breast abnormalities, those extra days are critical.”

Obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Frank Bassani recently joined the practice of Drs. William Dundore, Rand Himes and Tonia Kosek. Dr. Bassani brings experience in a variety of laparoscopic surgical procedures, including hysterectomy.

“The major advantages to a laparoscopic hysterectomy over the traditional procedure are significantly less post-operative pain and discomfort and a much shorter recovery period, probably only three to four weeks instead of six to eight weeks,” he said.

This article was submitted by the Grove City Medical Center.