Clinical Care

Pillar Specific Objectives:

• Decrease the negative psychological impact on the patient of having an evaluation or treatment intervention for breast disease.
• Create and maintain an environment (medical, physical, psychological) conductive to the multiple needs of the patient undergoing breast disease evaluation / treatment.
• Utilize objective measurement instruments to longitudinally assess the patient’s psychological response to evaluation and intervention, and base modifications on those results.

The clinical care pillar was established by building state of the art breast care facilities at the Windber and Walter Reed sites. These sites were critical to the ability to implement all other pillars of this Project. The Walter Reed Comprehensive Breast Center opened in July 2001, and the Joyce Murtha Breast Center in Windber opened in February 2002.