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Updated: March 22, 2025 @ 6:00 am
Guests gather during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Guests take a tour during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Metosha Brantley, right, gives a tour to her niece Erica Boggs during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Imaging equipment during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Amanda Payne, left, and Betty Reavis check out the cab during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Jamey Brogan, vice president of mission integration for Christus Good Shepherd Medical System speaks during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Father Uche blesses staff and equipment during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Father Uche blesses staff and equipment during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Christi Allen
Guests gather during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Guests take a tour during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Metosha Brantley, right, gives a tour to her niece Erica Boggs during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Imaging equipment during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Amanda Payne, left, and Betty Reavis check out the cab during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Jamey Brogan, vice president of mission integration for Christus Good Shepherd Medical System speaks during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Father Uche blesses staff and equipment during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Father Uche blesses staff and equipment during a dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Dedication ceremony for a new 3D Mobile Mammography Bus Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd. (Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal Photo)
Christus Good Shepherd Health System’s new mobile mammography unit is designed to increase accessibility to mammograms, particularly in rural East Texas.
“This unit will be a game changer for our health care outreach and how we can serve our more rural communities,” said Amy Dorsey, radiology supervisor for Christus Good Shepherd Health System. “We are now able to offer the same technology that we have at our comprehensive breast center in Longview.”
The approximately $1 million unit replaces the hospital system’s older unit. The new coach uses upgraded, 3D technology and “advanced artificial intelligence software to provide the highest quality images available while emphasizing patient comfort and compassion in mind,” the hospital reported.
Funding was provided by the hospital system’s Lyrics & Legends event in April 2024 and by community donations to the Christus Good Shepherd Foundation.
The boutique Miss Behavin’ is now open in the Murray Center at 2318 Judson Road in Longview.
Janet Griffin and her business partner, Lacy Horn, offer ladies clothing, including shoes, jeans, dresses and tops as well as some gift items, jewelry and hats and caps.
Horn also owns a boutique in Mount Pleasant, and Griffin said she has long wanted to own a boutique as well. She also works full-time as a respiratory therapist, but wanted to open the store now. The store will give her something to do when she retires at a later date. Her husband, Ken “Boomer” Beard, is already retired and helping her out at the store.
Miss Behavin’ is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
Longview-based Thomas Oilfield Services has launched a new division, Thomas Supply, which offers equipment and hardware from the company’s inventory for rental or purchase.
cloud-based business purchasing and AP automation platform.
The new division is built on an “intelligent procure-to-pay platform,” according to Vroozi, which is a cloud-based purchasing and accounts payable automation platform company.
The new “direct materials procurement innovation creates a new revenue stream while reducing supply chain risk,” the company reported. Vroozi is based in Los Angeles.
“The initiative represents a major advance in direct materials procurement and inventory management within the oil and gas industry,” Vroozi reported. The Vroozi system monitors inventory levels and “triggers purchase requests when supplies run low, while managing all associated data and transactions.”
Vroozi reported that the new system helped Thomas Oilfield’s financial turnaround following a significant business downturn. Those difficulties led Thomas Oilfield to create additional revenue streams through the rental and sale of inventory items. The automation has eliminated manual processes typically required for direct materials procurement.
Christi Allen, a longtime local personal chef, has launched a new business serving a different group of clients.
Christi Allen
“It’s still very brand new,” Allen said of her home-based business, Happy Tails Dog Treats.
Allen will be selling her treats today at the annual Strut your Mutt 1 Mile Wag Walk, a fundraiser benefitting the Longview Animal Care and Adoption Center. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. at 303 H.G. Mosley Parkway, with a registration fee of $30. The walk kicks off at 10 a.m.
“I love animals. I love dogs,” Allen said. She has two herself, Finnegan, a lab, and Farrah, a “mutt.”
She researched to find the best ingredients for dogs, and her treats have “limited ingredients.” Allen uses oat flour instead of wheat, with other ingredients that include peanut butter, bananas, carob and oats, depending on the different flavor varieties. She also offers pupcakes — a cupcake treat — and birthday cakes.
For more information, visit the Happy Tails Dog Treats Facebook page.
— Business Beat appears Wednesday. If you have items for the column, email to newsroom@newsjournal.com; mail to Business Section, Longview News-Journal, P.O. box 1792, Longview, TX 75606; or call (903) 237-7744.
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