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Erlanger boasts $1.1 billion budget, nurse retention at May meetings

In this Jan. 5, 2016, staff file photo, the medical towers at Erlanger Medical Center are shown on the east side of the facility on Third Street near the intersection with Central Avenue in Chattanooga, Tenn.
In this Jan. 5, 2016, staff file photo, the medical towers at Erlanger Medical Center are shown on the east side of the facility on Third Street near the intersection with Central Avenue in Chattanooga, Tenn.

By Elizabeth Fite 3 min read

Erlanger Health System prepared to usher in a new era at its board of trustees meetings this week.

For the first time in Erlanger history, the hospital’s chief financial officer presented a more than $1 billion budget proposal at Monday’s budget and finance committee meeting.

photo Steven Angle

New trustee Steve Angle, chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, attended his first board meeting Thursday, and trustee Jennifer Stanley bid the board farewell after more than eight years of service.

She said her first goal as a board member was to help get Erlanger “back on stable financial footing.”

“My next goal was, in the back of my mind, what could we be if we were a billion-dollar hospital organization? What could we do for the citizens of this community?” Stanley said. “We’re there now.”