One local executive is on a mission to make it easy for you to discover how healthy you really are.
“It’s not easy to get a health screening today,” says Sherry Eckman, CEO, Midwest Diagnostic Imaging. “First, you have to get an order from your doctor. Then you wait months for an appointment and have to arrange child care or schedule the day off work.”
Sherry’s solution: Same-day or next-day screenings, in about 30 minutes, without a doctor’s order.
Call it a kind of “DIY health.”
“We offer non-invasive, painless ultrasound screenings that can detect life-threatening conditions,” she says.
To some people, she gives peace of mind. To others, a second chance. Like the 45-year-old man with abdominal pains.
“Our ultrasound technician found a large abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was rushed to the emergency room and they did surgery right away to save his life,” she says. “He waited until he felt pain, and that was almost too late.”
Routine, proactive screening could have caught this earlier.
“That’s why we have screening packages you can afford to get every year,” she says.
Like the Stroke Prevention Package, just $149. The Women’s Health Package, $159. Preventive Care Package for your abdomen, $199. Or the Heart Health Package, $149. Or get all the checks, head to toe, for as little as $656.
That’s affordable peace of mind.
MDI offers a professional environment. Tests are done by certified technicians and results read by board-certified radiologists and cardiologists. Results are sent directly to you and, if you’d like, to your primary care physician, so they become part of your medical record.
“We have patients of all ages,” she says. "We do echocardiograms and abdominal ultrasounds on kids, especially when they’re about to begin sports. There have been so many instances of young athletes dying on the field due to an unknown heart condition. We have an affordable way to check your child before they start playing.”
Sherry and her team of technicians are also mobile: They go to more than 25 local physician offices as well as businesses.
“It’s a great perk for a company to provide to employees,” she says. “It improves morale, shows you care about your employees and we do it on site. Employees don’t have to schedule a day off to get their screenings."
Screenings also make great gifts for birthdays, holidays or anniversaries. MDI offers gift certificates for any amount.
For Sherry, it comes down to the mission: Putting your health in your own hands.
“Doctors are hampered by insurance companies who won’t pay for testing when there isn’t a diagnosis. Even then, deductibles keep going up.”
If you do have an order for an ultrasound from your doctor, you can have it done at MDI quickly and Sherry’s team will run it through your insurance.
One other special: Ultrasounds for expectant couples who want to know the gender of their baby. “If you really want to find out, we’ll do the ultrasound for just $100. We’ll even put the results in an envelope you can open at your reveal party.”
To schedule a same-day or next-day screening, call (248) 681-2000 or visit MDIMichigan.com to schedule an appointment online.
If you’re a physician office that would like to offer ultrasounds to your patients in the comfort of your office, or a business that would like to offer screenings to your employees, call Sherry at (248) 681-2000 to set up a consultation.
If we find something, you’ll have the benefit of early detection. We want you around for many more years, making memories with your family.