Breast Health Navigator
What is a Breast Health Navigator?
- A nurse who is proficiently knowledgeable about breast diseases.
- A provider of educational information and support to women concerned about their breast health.
- An educational and emotional consultant for women with benign breast diseases.
- A supporter of the breast cancer patient and her family in understanding and coping with the strong emotions that accompany a breast cancer diagnosis.
- A facilitator of physicians’ recommendations for patient care to help ensure patient compliance and understanding.
- A nurse educator that provides the facts – not opinions for treatment advice.
- A nurse educator for other medical personnel in understanding benign and malignant diseases, their treatment and the patient’s emotional and social recovery from the disease.
- A public educator on the early detection of breast disease and breast self-exam skills.
Our Breast Health Navigator is Kim Richendollar, RN, BSN
richendk@somc.org
(740) 356-PINK (7465)
The SOMC Cancer Center
1121 Kinney’s Lane
Portsmouth, OH 45662
Hands of Hope
We are able to provide a Breast Health Navigator thanks to a grant from the Columbus affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
