Saint Thomas Rutherford

Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award

ByMurfreesboro.com

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…

NICU Babies at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown Wish You a Happy Halloween

NICU Babies at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown Wish You a Happy Halloween

ByMurfreesboro.com

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…

New Saint Thomas Graduates

Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Honors First Graduating Class of Residency Program

ByMurfreesboro.com

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….

Kidney Transplant Recipients

Celebrate with Ascension Saint Thomas West! Record-Setting 100 Kidney Transplants YTD

ByMurfreesboro.com

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…

Greg James MD

Flu vs. COVID-19: How to Protect Yourself and Others

ByMurfreesboro.com

Flu season typically begins to ramp up in October which, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on public health, means our communities are now at an even greater risk for disease that cannot be ignored. Reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, like flu, this fall and winter is more important than ever. Sometimes the best…

Amber Sims

Ascension Saint Thomas’ Chief Strategy Officer is Promoted to Senior Vice President, Strategy, for Ascension

ByMurfreesboro.com

Amber Sims has been promoted to serve as Senior Vice President, Strategy for Ascension, effective October 5th. Amber previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for Ascension Saint Thomas and has been a part of the ministry for almost 20 years. Amber began her career with Ascension at Baptist Hospital, now Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown…

Jan Shasteen Vaughn

State’s first female heart transplant recipient celebrates 35 years on borrowed heart

ByMurfreesboro.com

76-year-old Jan Shasteen Vaughn is a breathing, laughing, singing piece of Tennessee history. On September 7, 1985, she became the first woman in the state to receive a heart transplant. She celebrated 35 years with her “new” heart just weeks ago from her home in DeBary, Florida, where the Tennessee native relocated in 2007 to…

Ascension Saint Thomas

Ascension Saint Thomas and Results Physiotherapy Partner to Expand Outpatient Rehabilitation Network

ByMurfreesboro.com

Ascension Saint Thomas and Results Physiotherapy have announced they have signed a letter of intent to integrate their outpatient rehabilitation operations and clinicians across Middle Tennessee, creating a partnership of physical, speech and occupational therapies with 55 locations in the region. The proposed affiliation will bring together the rehabilitation teams and capabilities of Ascension Saint…