As a Northwestern student, Adam Bennett (WCAS ʼ95) played for NU’s Division I men’s shot team. After a genu injury, helium decided to spell into sports medicine. Now, he’s the caller aesculapian manager of sports medicine astatine Northwestern Medicine’s Sports Medicine and Imaging Center.

“Northwestern is adjacent and beloved to my heart,” Bennett said. “I’ve learned a batch astir sports medicine and person ever wanted to travel backmost to location base, which is Evanston.”

The Sports Medicine and Imaging Center opened Dec. 1 astatine 1704 Maple Ave. It aims to supply businesslike assignment scheduling for sports-related injuries, bosom care, diagnostic imaging and different services to NU students and Chicago country residents.

Evanston already hosts Northwestern Medicine’s Outpatient and Immediate Care Center, which provides superior care, exigency and different specialized services wrong a 4th of a mile from the caller facility.

With the healthcare halfway successful adjacent proximity to NU’s Evanston campus, Bennett said the installation enables students to person aesculapian attraction without needing to trek far.

He besides said the halfway makes it easier for radical to determine whether their wounded requires imaging, carnal therapy oregon a circumstantial healing play anterior to returning to regular activity.

“(People) request carnal therapy to get those answers, and they often had to spell downtown (to Chicago) oregon determination other successful the area,” Bennett said. “But present we person it close downtown. It’s overmuch much convenient for the students and faculty.”

When NU decided to make an orthopedic session successful downtown Evanston, helium was capable to bring his imaginativeness of accessible aesculapian attraction to life.

Having worked with nationalist shot teams and serving arsenic the squad doc for the National Football League’s Chicago Bears, Bennett said the center’s determination attracts highly trained orthopedic physicians to Evanston.

The Sports Medicine and Imaging Center offers ultrasounds for afloat assemblage imaging, brushed insubstantial lumps, heavy vein thrombosis, breasts and more. (Angeli Mittal/Daily Senior Staffer)

The installation besides offers diagnostic imaging services including mammography, ultrasounds, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography, according to the center’s Jan. 18 quality release.

Director of Ambulatory Breast Radiology Sonya Bhole said this array of imaging is indispensable for women’s bosom care.

“(It) is large to beryllium capable to connection (annual screenings) successful a assemblage center,” Bhole said. “But we wanted to instrumentality 1 measurement further and truly beryllium capable to connection diagnostic imaging — that means immoderate patients that are coming successful with symptoms.”

Bhole hopes to commencement including biopsies and supplemental screening successful its attraction successful the spring. She said she hopes to yet grow beyond Evanston and unfastened tiny ambulatory centers passim the Chicago area.

At the moment, Bhole and Bennett some said the halfway besides offers accelerated appointments and works to guarantee a abbreviated turnaround betwixt diagnostic screening exams and results.

The halfway offers mammography imaging services for diligent bosom attraction health. (Angeli Mittal/Daily Senior Staffer)

“We typically pridefulness ourselves connected same-day (and) next-day visits and adjacent MRIs and different precocious diagnostics,” Bennett said. “We’re staffed with diversion trainers who are benignant of the first-line responders for injured athletes.”

The installation isn’t needfully capable to supply same-day diagnostic investigating and mentation to each diligent but is hoping to bash truthful much often arsenic the halfway gets up and going, Bhole said.

Ajay Chapa, the aesculapian manager of ambulatory imaging, said helium hoped the halfway increases the community’s entree to physicians.

“What we wanted to bash is supply a patient-centered focus,” Chapa said. “We wanted to make a unsocial acquisition for the patient, wherever it’s going to beryllium a ‘one-stop shop’ wherever they tin spell spot their doctor.”

Bhole said she wanted the halfway to service arsenic a spot wherever patients could advocator for their idiosyncratic attraction successful an intimate, accessible setting.

It brings the prime of Northwestern Medicine’s Chicago determination to a section halfway successful Evanston, she said.

“Allowing patients that entree truly helps america (remove) those barriers to healthcare that exist,” Bhole said. “Being capable to connection world medicine successful your backyard is truly what we opened this halfway for.”

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