MORGANTOWN – Bonnie’s Bus mobile mammography units will visit area communities next month, offering three-dimensional digital screening mammograms and breast care education to women.

Local stops currently scheduled include:

CHANGE Inc. in Weirton, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 19. For information, call (304) 797-7733, extension 1306;

CHANGE Inc. in Newell, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 21. For information, call (304) 797-7733, extension 3116;

Wellsburg Banquet Hall, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 22. To make an appointment, call (304) 737-3665

Bonnie’s Bus is a service of WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals and the WVU Cancer Institute. The screening mammograms are billed to private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare, if available.

Patients who are underinsured or uninsured, and meet enrollment criteria, will be assisted in enrolling in the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program to cover the cost of the screening mammogram.

Uninsured women living in West Virginia who are 40 and older can receive a free screening mammogram on the Bus through the generosity of grant funding and donations. A physician’s order is needed for a mammogram.

Bonnie’s Bus has provided more than 34,000 mammograms for women throughout West Virginia and led to the detection of more than 202 cases of breast cancer since 2009. Many of those screened are underinsured or uninsured and qualify for screening through the WVBCCSP.

Bonnie’s Bus works in collaboration with a statewide partnership of clinicians, public health professionals, women’s groups, and other community leaders working to help reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer in West Virginia.

For information on Bonnie’s Bus, see WVUCancer.org/Bonnie.