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The Western Star, March 2007
Vanguard Imaging scanning for patients.
By Daniel Wells, Staff Writer
Lebanon residents have a new option when going for diagnostic medical scans.
Dayton-based Vanguard Imaging Partners, LLC recently opened its newest center at 1248 Columbus Ave., across the street from the new Kroger Marketplace.
The center offers CT scans, ultrasounds and X-rays. A high-field open MRI allows patients to be scanned without braving the claustrophobic tube patients enter for other MRIs.
Founded just last year, Vanguard is moving quickly to open centers throughout the Dayton area. The company, which is co-owned by Premier Health Partners and 37 radiologists, opened its first center in Beavercreek July 10. Since then, it’s merged with North Main Imaging Centers, which owned centers in Dayton and Kettering, and opened a center in Huber Heights.
A Springboro location is set to open March 28 and a Middletown center is due in June. Vanguard President and CEO Joe Brywczynski said Premier, which includes Good Samaritan, Miami Valley and Middletown Regional hospitals, is the company’s majority owner.
Brywczynski, a former executive at Good Samaritan, said the region’s aging population and changes in technology should help the company grow between 9 percent and 12 percent a year.
“More and more patients have a reason to get diagnostic testing,” Brywczynski said. “The feeling was if we don’t do this, someone else will.”
Rhonda Seidenschmidt, who manages the Lebanon center, said the center takes referrals from all physicians regardless of whether they’re affiliated with Premier. She said the three radiologists on staff promise to get scan results back into the referring physician’s hands within 24 hours.
“We’re trying to make this as convenient for our patients and referring physicians as possible,” Brywczynski said.
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