Middle Tennessee proudly “went red” on Friday for National Wear Red Day, but the mission of Heart Month is far from over! The newborns of Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown and Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford are donning red to raise awareness for Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. CHD Awareness Week runs from February 7th through…
TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center will join the American Heart Association to raise awareness about women and heart disease by lighting the hospital red tonight, February 1, 2021. Tristar StoneCrest Medical Center is kicking off American Heart Month by turning the facility red because heart disease and stroke cause 1 in 3 deaths among women each…
Ascension Saint Thomas is the first health system in Tennessee, and one of the first in the nation, approved to provide Hospital Care at Home to Medicare fee-for-service patients. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, approved the service at Ascension Saint Thomas West and…
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital is pleased to recognize its 2020 honorees for outstanding accomplishments in clinical leadership. Dr. Pam Singer has been named Physician of the Year, Dr. Vlada Melekhin received the Clinical Excellence Award, and Dr. Joseph Little was honored with the Olin Williams Distinguished Service Award. Physician of the Year honoree Dr….
The Center for Joint Replacement at TriStar StoneCrest celebrated a new milestone! Join us in congratulating our surgeons, Dr. Greenberg, Dr. Mayfield, and Dr. Steinagle, along with our entire joint replacement team for performing over 200 robotic arm-assisted joint replacement surgeries using the Mako Robot since first bringing this technology to Rutherford County in 2019!…
TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center is proud to announce it has started administering the monoclonal antibody therapeutic, bamlanivimab, for the treatment of non-hospitalized patients with mild or moderate confirmed cases of COVID-19. Bamlanivimab received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on November 9, 2020. “TriStar StoneCrest is committed to providing excellent,…
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital is pleased to introduce Doris Price, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC, as its new Director of the Emergency Department. Doris most recently served as Director of Critical Care Services for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. In her six years with the state’s largest faith-based, non-profit health system,…
The Town of Smyrna is pleased to support TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center’s #LightsUp4Heroes campaign to honor healthcare workers. “The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, but it has been particularly difficult for our frontline healthcare workers,” shared Smyrna Town Manager Brian D. Hercules. “The Town will leave our Christmas lights up…
Few new years have been as eagerly awaited as 2021, so cutie Christopher “Tripp” Michael Richey III understandably made an early-morning arrival today! Tripp was born at 2:35 AM at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown, making him the hospital and health system’s first newborn of the year. The Tennessee Titans and Pinnacle Financial Partners joined…
A new baby is always a gift, but the newborns at the Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown NICU have taken the saying quite literally this December. Our RNs have created Christmas magic by hand-making outfits for our NICU babies. Each child’s “gift tag” is inscribed with an attribute or adjective that describes him or her….