Updated booster shots targeting the omicron variant of COVID-19 arrived in Chattanooga on Friday, providing vaccinated residents a new tool to bolster protection against the most common strains of the coronavirus currently circulating before a potential winter surge.
Amid the administrative burdens, government regulations and high-pressure environment of the health care industry, it can be difficult for overwhelmed providers to find time to focus on the patient experience.
Kindergarten vaccination rates in Tennessee, a state once heralded for its childhood vaccination program, dipped to a record low of 93.7% in the past year, with Hamilton County falling among the least vaccinated counties in the state, according to a statewide report.
Hamilton County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that will allow Erlanger Health System to move forward in transitioning from a government entity to a private, nonprofit corporation.
A proposed rule change to Georgia health care regulations would prevent out-of-state facilities from trying to block state-approved projects - leaving local hospital officials questioning whether the change would affect the stalled CHI Memorial Georgia hospital in Catoosa County.
Blood platelet supply in the Chattanooga region is critically low, according to a news release from the nonprofit community blood center Blood Assurance.
Abortion will become illegal in Tennessee when the state's "trigger law" goes into effect Aug. 25. While there are many unknowns about how prosecutors will enforce the law, attorneys and physicians say it's important for providers and patients to know what the statute does and does not protect.
Hamilton County commissioners will vote next week on an agreement that would allow Erlanger Health System, the Chattanooga region's largest hospital and only safety-net provider, to transition from a government entity to a private, nonprofit corporation.
Chattanooga became the largest metro area in the United States without an abortion clinic when the city's only clinic closed in 1993. Although abortion rates for Hamilton County residents and Southeast Tennesseans are below that of the state, women have continued to obtain the procedure.
At least three Hamilton County residents have tested positive for monkeypox, representing the first confirmed Chattanooga-area cases in an unprecedented outbreak of the virus that until May was rarely reported in the United States.
