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Shields Health Enhances Patient Experience with Innovative Scheduling Portal

Boston (March, 2024) – Shields Health has launched a new Patient Scheduling Portal, an online platform aimed at simplifying the process for scheduling healthcare appointments. This portal, available around the clock, provides patients with the capability to book, adjust, or cancel MRI appointments at their convenience, outside regular office hours.   Offering real-time MRI appointment … Continued

SHIELDS HEALTH ANNOUNCES PET/CT & MRI PARTNERSHIP WITH HEYWOOD MEDICAL GROUP

Athol, Mass. (November 2, 2022) – Shields Health, New England’s largest network of independent imaging centers, and Heywood Healthcare today announced a new partnership that provides high-tech PET/CT imaging services at Athol hospital. This joint venture marks the sixteenth PET/CT partnership for Shields Health, further increasing access to patients in Central Massachusetts. The joint venture … Continued

Advancing multiparametric prostate MRI

Shields’ radiologists have extensive experience in mpMRI interpretation, working closely with urologists and radiation oncologists, biopsy planning and lesion segmentation. An early adopter with extensive mpMRI experience since 2011, Shields radiologists are represented on the ACR Committee for Prostate MRI Accreditation. Hear how MRI saved this patient’s life. 78 year old Bill Whelan’s physician told … Continued

The First 3T MRI Scanner for Worcester

State-of-the-Art 3T MRI Scanner Improves Image Clarity, Patient Comfort and Exam Speed Shields Health Care Group (Shields) and UMass Memorial Health Care today announced that patients now have access to a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner at the imaging center located at 214 Shrewsbury Street. This newest wide-bore 3T MRI from General Electric (GE) … Continued

Quincy-based imaging company to open 7 more locations in 2016

Tom Shields, President & CEO, Shields Health Care Group Full BBJ article, here Shields Health Care Group executives have their eyes on expansion, with plans to open seven more outpatient diagnostic centers in 2016. The 44-year old, Quincy-based family business is already one of the bigger independent imaging companies on the market, boasting 30 MRI … Continued

Shields MRI – Portsmouth

New Hampshire Welcomes Shields’ Quality and Price for MRI. For the first time, Shields Health Care Group (Shields), the leading MRI provider in Massachusetts, will bring their high-value MRI services into New Hampshire. February 4 marks the opening of Shields MRI – Portsmouth, in partnership with Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine (AOSM), a leading orthopedics … Continued