With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) having issued emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 vaccine, Ascension, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit and Catholic health systems, is implementing a comprehensive vaccine distribution plan that is consistent with federal, state and local guidance. Today, at 11:00am, Ascension Saint Thomas, in Nashville, administered its…
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West has displayed a Nativity scene each Advent season for more than a century. In recent decades, the familiar scene has been staged on a grassy hill above Harding Road. A few years ago, the hospital commissioned a new creche (manger) and bought new, life-size figures. In a “normal” year, December…
Kim Bartley, M.D., is a board-certified family medicine physician who is now practicing at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic (MMC). Dr. Bartley was born in a port city of Incheon, South Korea and later moved to Arkansas where she graduated high school, received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Arkansas, and went on to…
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford earned the award…
Longtime Antioch resident Geraldean Smith celebrated her 66th birthday on September 30th. Her most memorable present? A kidney donated by her son, 42-year-old Howard Smith Jr. Taking a break from his successful career in IT recruiting in Pittsburgh, Howard returned to Middle Tennessee this May to help his mom Geraldean and dad Howard Sr. as…
The sweet tradition that began in 2019 has returned for Halloween 2020! Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown NICU RNs Kim Meek and Olivia Horne have practiced magic once again to hand-make the cutest, funniest, and tiniest Halloween outfits you’ve ever seen for our current NICU babies. These fun-sized costumes are a creative way for RNs…
As we continue to fight COVID-19 getting a flu vaccine this fall is more important than ever. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September and October are good times to be vaccinated, and experts at CareNow are encouraging Americans to get the flu vaccine early. “An annual seasonal flu vaccine is the…
Prevention Coalition for Success is holding a drug take back event at Saint Thomas Rutherford on Saturday, October 24, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. “Prevention Coalition for Success is excited to partner with Saint Thomas Rutherford to offer a drug take back event for Rutherford County. Through this event, we hope to raise…
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West congratulates the inaugural graduating class of its General Surgery Residency Program, which launched in 2016 in partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The alumni of the UTHSC-Nashville General Surgery Residency Program have matched for competitive fellowship opportunities and are each continuing to work selflessly throughout the pandemic….
Leaders from the Kidney Transplant Program at Ascension Saint Thomas West met with Fahad Tahir, President and CEO of Ascension Saint Thomas West and Midtown, to celebrate the program’s record-breaking 100th kidney transplant year-to-date. “We have been blessed and successful in our endeavors because we continue to be a very patient-centric program concentrated on the…