CHRISTUS St. Mary’s Clinic Recognized By The Rose

We are proud to share that CHRISTUS St. Mary’s Clinic has been recognized by The Rose as one of its leading healthcare collaborators. Through this vital partnership, The Rose provides on-site mammography services at the clinic, ensuring that uninsured and underserved women in Houston receive access to life-saving breast cancer screenings and diagnostics.

Thanks to The Rose’s generous donor-supported programs, patients at St. Mary’s can receive free or low-cost mammograms, follow-up diagnostics, and navigation services—removing financial and systemic barriers that often delay care. This collaboration directly supports The Rose’s mission to reduce breast cancer mortality through early detection, especially among those who might otherwise go without care.

In FY25, The Rose provided breast health services to over 1,400 women at St. Mary’s Clinic, serving about 117 patients a month. “The Clinic has a two-month waiting list and an almost 100% show rate for mammograms,” Sister Rosanne Popp, M.D., St. Mary’s Clinic Medical Director, said.

In The Rose’s recent annual report, it was stated that in the last seven years, all women in whom Stage 4 breast cancer was discovered were uninsured with two of those women coming from St. Mary’s Clinic. “In May of this year, we had 158 mammograms with 23 of those showing abnormal and needing additional diagnosis, which is about a 15% abnormal rate,” Popp said. “Of those 23, two to three will probably progress to biopsy.  We typically have three to four breast cancer diagnoses a year.”

In addition to St. Mary’s Clinic, mobile mammograms are also provided at CHRISTUS Point of Light Clinic in Dickinson.