At American Health Centers, Inc., we maintain the flexibility to explore, design and tailor our services to your needs. Our "turnkey" approach includes

• feasibility studies
  
• financial projections
  
• strategic planning
  
• site development
  
• project implementation
  
• project management
  
• interim diagnostic services
  

Let our experienced personnel team up with your qualified staff to help implement your vision to provide the services your community needs.

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American Health Centers, Inc. provides a variety of valuable support services that increase the effectiveness of our medical imaging services we also comply with Stark, NRC and HIPAA:

• Entity-specific documentation required for accreditation inspections. We also comply with Stark, NRC and HIPAA.
  
• Local and regional advertising to promote the specific service, entity and key staff members.
  
• Patient information pamphlets.
  
• CEU educational materials for referring physicians and radiologists.
  
• Inservice education for facility and referring physician staff.
  
• Periodic technology informational updates.
  
• Referral trending and statistical reports.
  

Tailoring our services to meet the needs of individual programs has also led to assistance with such areas as:

• Billing, coding and education assistance.
  
• Patient scheduling and screening support.
  
• MRI training for interested facilities.
  
• Downloading of images to facility laser printer or hospital affiliate for interpretation.
  

To locate MRI Services closest to you, please contact us at info@ahcidiagnostics.com
or 1-800-999-9154.

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To verify eligibility and safety, please download and print a screening form and a patient brochure for your patient to complete. For your convenience, we have posted a general list of contraindications.

Ordering procedures vary from site to site. For specific instructions and the location of an MRI site closest to you, please contact us at info@ahcidiagnostics.com or 1-800-999-9154.

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The following are general guidelines. Please contact us at info@ahcidiagnostics.com or 1-800-999-9154 for more specific information.

For safety reasons, patients with the following implants or conditions are not eligible for MRI.

• Pacemaker, wires or defibrillator
  
• Brain/aneurysm clip
  
• Nonremovable electrical devices, e.g., tens unit or infusion pump
  
• Magnetic implant
  
• Cochlear ear implant or internal hearing aid
  
• Pregnant or possibly pregnant
  

Breastfeeding patients requiring gadolinium must express milk for 48 hours following injection before returning to breastfeeding.

Patients with history of metal working with no eye protection or history of face or eye injury involving metal must have orbit x-rays cleared prior to MRI. Patients who have always worn eye protection or have had a previous MRI procedure since the eye injury are exempt from the orbit x-ray requirement.

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Download the instructions here.

To verify eligibility and safety, please download and print a screening form and a patient brochure for your patient to complete. For safety reasons, patients with the following implants or conditions are not eligible for MRI.

• Pacemaker, wires or defibrillator
  
• Brain/aneurysm clip
  
• Nonremovable electrical devices, e.g., tens unit or infusion pump
  
• Magnetic implant
  
• Cochlear ear implant or internal hearing aid
  
• Pregnant or possibly pregnant
  

Simply explained, a MR system works in this manner: when a body is placed within a magnetic field, its protons align with and rotate around the direction of that field. If a radio frequency (RF) signal of appropriate frequency is beamed through the body some of the protons absorb the RF energy and change direction or, in other words, resonate. When the RF signal is stopped, the protons return to their original position, releasing the absorbed energy and generating a signal that is picked up by an antenna and then processed by the computer into an image. Images are read by a licensed radiologist who generates a report which is sent to your treating physician.

Breastfeeding patients requiring gadolinium must express milk for 48 hours following injection before returning to breastfeeding.

Patients with history of metal working with no eye protection or history of face or eye injury involving metal must have orbit x-rays cleared prior to MRI. Patients who have always worn eye protection or have had a previous MRI procedure since the eye injury are exempt from the orbit x-ray requirement.

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American Health Centers, Inc. currently provides Mobile MRI Services to multiple locations in the following states:
New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine (www.MRIAssociates.com) and Massachusetts.

New Hampshire: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital 125 Mascoma Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 603-448-3121 Androscoggin Valley Hospital 59 Page Hill Rd, Berlin, NH 03570 603-752-2200 www.nchin.org Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Center (BASC) 11 Washington Place Bedford, NH 03110 603-626-9570 www.bedfordsurgical.com Cottage Hospital Swiftwater Road Woodsville, NH 03785 603-747-9000 www.cottagehospital.org Huggins Hospital 240 South Main St Wolfeboro, NH 03894 603-569-7500 Monadnock Community Hospital 452 Old Street Road Peterborough, NH 03458 603-924-7191 New London Hospital 273 County Road New London, NH 03257 603-526-2911 www.newlondonhospital.org Ralph Wolf Orthopaedics 159 Kinsley Street Nashua, NH 03060 603-889-1881 Speare Memorial Hospital 16 Hospital Rd Plymouth, NH 03264 603-536-1120 www.spearehospital.com The Memorial Hospital 3073 White Mountain Highway North Conway, NH 03860 603-356-5461 Valley Regional Hospital 243 Elm Street Claremont, NH 03743 603-542-7771 www.vrh.org Weeks Medical Center 173 Middle Street Lancaster, NH 03584 603-788-4911

Vermont: Central Vermont Medical Center 130 Fisher Rd Barre, VT 05641 802-229-9121   Copley Hospital 528 Washington Highway Morrisville, VT 05661 802-888-4231   Gifford Medical Center 44 South Main St Randolph, VT 05060 802-728-4441 www.giffordmed.org   North Country Hospital and Health Center, Inc. 189 Prouty Drive Newport, VT 05855 802-334-7331 www.nchsi.org

To locate MRI Services closest to you, please contact us at info@ahcidiagnostics.com
or 1-800-999-9154.

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To verify eligibility and safety, please download and print a screening form and a patient brochure for your patient to complete. For your convenience, we have posted a general list of contraindications.

Ordering procedures vary from site to site. For specific instructions and the location of an MRI site closest to you, please contact us at info@ahcidiagnostics.com or 1-800-999-9154.

Back to top


The following are general guidelines. Please contact us at info@ahcidiagnostics.com or 1-800-999-9154 for more specific information.

For safety reasons, patients with the following implants or conditions are not eligible for MRI.

• Pacemaker, wires or defibrillator
  
• Brain/aneurysm clip
  
• Nonremovable electrical devices, e.g., tens unit or infusion pump
  
• Magnetic implant
  
• Cochlear ear implant or internal hearing aid
  
• Pregnant or possibly pregnant
  

Breastfeeding patients requiring gadolinium must express milk for 48 hours following injection before returning to breastfeeding.

Patients with history of metal working with no eye protection or history of face or eye injury involving metal must have orbit x-rays cleared prior to MRI. Patients who have always worn eye protection or have had a previous MRI procedure since the eye injury are exempt from the orbit x-ray requirement.

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Download the instructions here.

To verify eligibility and safety, please download and print a screening form and a patient brochure for your patient to complete. For safety reasons, patients with the following implants or conditions are not eligible for MRI.

• Pacemaker, wires or defibrillator
  
• Brain/aneurysm clip
  
• Nonremovable electrical devices, e.g., tens unit or infusion pump
  
• Magnetic implant
  
• Cochlear ear implant or internal hearing aid
  
• Pregnant or possibly pregnant
  

Simply explained, a MR system works in this manner: when a body is placed within a magnetic field, its protons align with and rotate around the direction of that field. If a radio frequency (RF) signal of appropriate frequency is beamed through the body some of the protons absorb the RF energy and change direction or, in other words, resonate. When the RF signal is stopped, the protons return to their original position, releasing the absorbed energy and generating a signal that is picked up by an antenna and then processed by the computer into an image. Images are read by a licensed radiologist who generates a report which is sent to your treating physician.

Breastfeeding patients requiring gadolinium must express milk for 48 hours following injection before returning to breastfeeding.

Patients with history of metal working with no eye protection or history of face or eye injury involving metal must have orbit x-rays cleared prior to MRI. Patients who have always worn eye protection or have had a previous MRI procedure since the eye injury are exempt from the orbit x-ray requirement.

If you have further questions that are not addressed on this page, please click here for a, printable, list of Frequently Asked Questions.

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