Every day, Robert Walker wakes up before the sun and drives 12 minutes across Baton Rouge to Woman's Hospital off Airline Highway. There, he trades in his car for a 45-foot bright pink bus. He then starts his trek.

Walker goes somewhere different each day. A clinic in Port Allen. A hospital in Assumption. A community center in Covington.

He is the driver of the Woman's Hospital Mobile Mammography Unit, a traveling bus that provides mammogram screenings to underserved communities across Louisiana and parts of Mississippi.

Walker stepped into Woman's Hospital back in 2006 for a comfortable, easy job working for the hospital that treated and saved his mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer.

"I didn't expect to stay for 19 years," Walker said.

Walker has plenty of experience, not onl

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