Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital is pleased to announce that its stroke program has been recertified by The Joint Commission, the healthcare industry’s most prestigious accrediting and standards-setting entity. Since first securing the designation of “Advanced Primary Stroke Center” in 2007, Saint Thomas Rutherford has maintained this status by meeting the requirements of biennial on-site surveys…
Halloween spirit has descended upon the halls of Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital, where this week’s NICU babies have been gifted costumes hand-crafted by the nurses caring for them around the clock. The brainchild of Midtown nurse Kim Meeks, whose daughter is a NICU graduate, this new tradition provides hospital staff with a special way to…
Gold’s Gym Tennessee with 6 locations surrounding the Nashville area has acquired 8 fitness centers in East Tennessee owned and operated by Gold’s Gym International in Dallas, TX, and formerly operated by the Rush. This purchase gives Gold’s Gym Tennessee almost exclusive coverage throughout the state of Tennessee with 14 locations, soon to be 15…
Neurosurgeons at TriStar Centennial Medical Center are the first in Tennessee to use fluorescence-guided surgery on high-grade glioma patients. Gleolan™ is an oral solution patients drink before surgery that “lights up” under blue light filters on a surgical microscope allowing surgeons to see and remove more of the tumor in some cases. A glioma is…
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital concludes a national search for a new Chief Medical Officer with the addition of Dr. Julian Yang, MD, MBA. Dr. Yang joins Saint Thomas Rutherford as CMO after acquiring extensive experience at Duke University Health System, where he served as Medical Director for Neurosciences and Vice Chair for Contracts and Strategy…
Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies used Narcan to revive a woman found unresponsive Wednesday inside the Judicial Center in downtown Murfreesboro. Deputy David Victor reported the woman was on the second floor of the building where her son started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Lt. Rhett Rankin reported. Deputies William Travis and Ethan Shenefield attended to the woman. “Deputy…
TriStar Centennial Heart and Vascular Center is pleased to welcome James Gentry, M.D. to Centennial Heart. Dr. Gentry specializes in structural and valvular heart disease including sports cardiology. He has also completed training in advanced echocardiography including structural peri-procedural imaging, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, and cardiac MRI. Dr. Gentry received his medical degree from the…
