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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
do you have an assistant who can proof read what you write? you really need help, because too often you don't make sense, and you are so earnest that that is a shame.
I was asking if poor ladies walk in just to get breast exams, or whether it is part of gets contraceptives or anything else PP might help with.
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According to our affiliate (which never got money from Koman, but still supported them by providing teams of people to run every year), they provided more than 41,000 breast exams, identified 839 abnormalities and referred women to local providers for follow up care in the last two years. From what I can tell from the pricing, it's rolled in to the
general exam.
I pulled the
2009-2010 annual report (the most recent one is in paper form at my house but not on line yet), and they said that they saw 52,027 women (for all the services they provide*) in that year, which suggests that not all women that walk through the door get a breast exam.
Oh, and as an FYI, these are the services they provided in that year:
110,471 health care visits (family planning, HIV and dysplasia visits) for women, men and teens
• 59,374 unduplicated clients served.
-52,027 women
-7,347 men
-3,386 teens (female and male clients under age 18)
• 17,489 Pap tests
• 104,179 tests for sexually transmitted infections
• 23,929 HIV prevention counseling and testing visits (In health centers and various community sites)
• 1,270 women received care for precancerous cervical conditions
• 18,515 estimated unintended pregnancies averted through birth control
Depending on resources and need, different affiliates offer different services. For example, some affiliates will provide prenatal care, while others do not.
*Despite what the Texas legislature may hope, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast does not provide abortion services. Planned Parenthood Center for Choice Ambulatory Surgical Center provides abortion services. They are two completely separate entities.
