Dozens of women in West Las Vegas say they were blindsided when letters arrived warning that their recent mammograms at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center might not have been good enough to trust.
Federal regulators had flagged image-quality problems at the hospital’s mammography unit, and the facility stopped offering mammograms late last year. The issue only spilled into public view this week after local investigative reports and copies of the letters started circulating on neighborhood message boards.
According to the notice, some patients who had mammograms at Summerlin between Oct. 24, 2023, and Dec. 11, 2025, may need their scans re-evaluated and, in some cases, repeated.
What the Letters Told Patients
Reporting by 8 News Now shows the letter bluntly stated that the Food and Drug Administration found the facility failed to meet the clinical image-quality standards required by its accreditation body. The FDA then ordered the hospital to stop performing mammography effective Dec. 11, 2025…