Social worker guides aging patients through some of their darkest times
For decades, Jane Ellis has helped patients and families through some of their darkest times.

For decades, Jane Ellis has helped patients and families through some of their darkest times.

A new nonprofit called Healthy Foundations wants to offer comprehensive counseling and addiction management services unlike any other service in North Georgia on 200 acres in Catoosa County.

The trap sat waiting beside an abandoned house on Wilder Road for Drake Kovacs to return and collect his spoils.

From infants with severe infections to teenagers with traumatic injuries, patients and their families come first for Dr. Marvin Hall, a pediatric critical care specialist at the Children's Hospital at Erlanger.

Changing times and needs led Cempa Community Care - formerly Chattanooga CARES - to evolve from HIV/AIDS educator in the 1980s to a champion of healthy communities today.

Erlanger CEO Kevin Spiegel's fate in question

Protesters gather as annual competition kicks off in Shelbyville, Tennessee

Erlanger Health System's executive vice president and chief operating officer "has separated from the organization," according to an emailed statement from Erlanger CEO and President Kevin Spiegel.

Tennessee Rep. Mike Carter, R-Ooltewah, says he wants to help local fire departments and social service providers find long-term solutions to the high volume of non-emergency 911 calls from aging and disabled Tennesseans who've fallen through the care cracks.

More than 6,000 area residents and 130 vendors flocked to Eastgate Town Center for the Hamilton County Minority Health Fair on Saturday.
