The Radiology Department at Baptist Hospital East is a large department comprised of more than 160 employees.

Approximately 90 to 100 of these employees are radiologic technologists. Currently, 13 radiologists staff the department 16 hours per day, seven days per week. There are more than 230,000 radiology examinations performed annually.

The department is full-service offering Diagnostic Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound, Mammography, Vascular, MRI and CT.

In 2004, the department was instrumental in imaging a 2,000 year-old mummy from the Louisville Science Center. The mummy is now back on display; images provided by Baptist East are part of the exhibit and are showcased in a video.

Diagnostic Radiology has nine X-ray rooms, five of which are fluoroscopic rooms. There are two rooms located in the Emergency Department (ED) and a room located in the Pre-Admission Testing (PAT) area. The department operates on a filmless basis using a PACS, or Picture Archiving and Communication System.

Dedicated staff work in the ED, PAT and Surgery, performing 108,000 diagnostic exams each year. There are two vascular suites with dedicated technologists serving those areas.

The areas of CT, MRI, Mammography, Ultrasound and Nuclear Medicine have technologists dedicated to those specific sections. These technologists work only in the area of their specialty.

Whenever openings occur in these areas, we try to allow the diagnostic technologists the opportunity to transfer into a specialty area.

Details and Specs

CT Department

Equipment: Two single-slice and one 16-slice scanner, both with spiral capability, in the main Radiology area and one quad-slice system in the ED.

Staffing: 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Procedures: More than 50,000 procedures annually - the busiest in Kentucky

MRI department

Equipment: Three GE 1.5T magnets

Procedures: More than 11,000 procedures annually

Ultrasound

Equipment: Three machines

Staffing: 24 hours a day Monday through Thursday; 6 a.m.-7:30 p.m. on Friday and 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Off hours are covered by an on-call technologist.

Procedures: More than 11,000 procedures annually

Nuclear Medicine

Equipment: Five cameras

Staffing: 10 hours per day, Monday through Friday, and eight hours on Saturday and Sunday. Off hours are covered by an on-call technologist.

Procedures: more than 13,000 procedures annually; averaging 45 to 50 examinations per day.

Mammography

Equipment: Three digital machines, one stereotactic breast biopsy unit and a bone densitometry unit.

Staffing: 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday, and eight hours on Saturday.

Procedures: More than 20,000 mammograms and 2,100 bone densitometry tests annually; averaging 35 to 40 mammogram examinations, three to four biopsies and 10 to 15 bone densitometry examinations daily.

Diagnostic Imaging Center

The Baptist Hospital East Diagnostic Imaging Center is located in Middletown at 12010 Shelbyville Road. The center offers diagnostic radiology procedures, ultrasound, CT scan, bone densitometry, digital screening mammography and open MRI. Hours are 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The center is filmless and all images are transmitted to Baptist Hospital East for interpretation by board-certified radiologists.

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