Area TriStar Health hospitals will partner with local law enforcement to host “Crush the Crisis” opioid take back day. The community is invited to safely and anonymously dispose of unused or expired prescription medications at participating TriStar Health hospitals. The opioid crisis has been declared a public health emergency. Every day, more than 130 people…
TriStar Health will open its fifteenth CareNow® Urgent Care location on Tuesday, Aug. 6 to serve patients in the North Gulch area of downtown Nashville, Tenn. The 3,000 sq. ft. clinic will be located at 1020 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and feature six exam rooms. CareNow® Urgent Care clinics provide a wide range…
TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center is the first hospital in Rutherford County to offer robotic-arm assisted total knee, partial knee and total hip replacements with the use of Stryker’s Mako System. Through a CT scan of the diseased joint, the system creates a 3D modeling of the patient’s bone anatomy. This allows surgeons to create a…
TriStar Centennial Medical Center is pleased to welcome Tom Jackson as the hospital’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Tom comes to TriStar Centennial from HCA Healthcare’s Parkridge Health System in Chattanooga where he served as market CFO for six years. Tom will oversee financial operations for the 741-bed hospital. Tom has nearly 20 years of…
TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center is pleased to announce the expansion of the hospital’s surgical services program with the addition of bariatric weight-loss surgery. Choosing weight loss surgery is a life-changing commitment and TriStar Southern Hills is proud to offer patients the latest in minimally invasive techniques that have been proven to reduce a patient’s…
TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center’s labor and delivery program now offer nitrous oxide as an alternative to pain medication during delivery. Some women choose nitrous oxide gas instead of – or, in addition to – the more widely used epidural analgesia. To further customize the birthing experience, laboring mothers self-administer the nitrous oxide through an on-demand…
TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center announced today that it is a recipient of the Healthgrades 2019 Patient Safety Excellence AwardTM. This distinction places TriStar StoneCrest among the top 5% of all short-term acute care hospitals reporting patient safety data as evaluated by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals. During the study…
Mitch Edgeworth has been appointed Chief Administrative Officer South at HCA Healthcare TriStar Division. In this newly created role, Edgeworth will have oversight of the Chattanooga and Northwest Georgia markets and will work with leadership to expand the service footprint utilizing an integrated approach to network access, regional outreach, hospital operations and strategic planning. “Mitch’s…
Hey parents mark your calendars, you’ll like this one! Kids Safety Day is next Saturday, May 18th, at the Smyrna Outdoor Adventure Center featuring all kinds of fun activities for the kids including bounce houses, rock climbing, face painting, kayaking in the pool and more! Thanks to TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center for putting on this…