CHI Memorial is set to start outpatient surgery this week at the health system's medical office complex along Battlefield Parkway between Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe in Catoosa County, Georgia.
Hamilton County has gone without a mask mandate for a month now, and COVID-19 cases continue to trend down, thanks in large part to the availability of highly effective vaccines.
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital has broken ground on its new $1.56 million, 6,200-square-foot medical office building, which will expand much-needed primary care to residents of the Cumberland Plateau and Sequatchie Valley at a time when many rural communities across the country are seeing similar services disappear.
Certified public accountant and veteran health care administrator Lynn DeJaco has been named interim chief financial officer at Erlanger Health System.
Erlanger Health System leadership revealed the most ambitious budget for the hospital in recent years on Monday, projecting a net income of $20 million and plans to invest $37 million in capital in the 2022 fiscal year, which will start July 1.
Federal health officials this week released new guidelines for fully vaccinated people, saying they no longer need to wear face masks or socially distance to protect themselves from COVID-19.
A bill barring state and local government agencies from requiring COVID-19 vaccines - including public schools and universities - is heading to Gov. Bill Lee's desk after it passed the Tennessee General Assembly last week.
COVID-19 vaccination sites look much different today compared to several months ago, when eager drivers would often sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic to get their long-awaited first vaccine dose.
Two years ago was the worst Mother's Day of Maria Castro Camacho's life. The medications that her eldest son, 24-year-old Santiago Castro Camacho, was taking to keep his kidneys functioning had stopped working, and he was forced to go on dialysis.
Hamilton County residents can now test themselves for COVID-19 at home using free, rapid COVID-19 test kits through a county-wide program called "Say Yes! COVID Test."
