Erlanger Health System administration's pattern of disrupting physician contracts is threatening the hospital's flagship stroke program and breeding a culture of distrust among the hospital's medical staff, according to documents obtained by the Times Free Press.
Despite living in the area of nearly 1,700 nonprofits, three hospitals and countless medical providers, minorities in Hamilton County experience much higher rates of disease and poor health than their white counterparts. But some members of Chattanooga's religious community want to change those statistics.
Erlanger Health System's board voted Thursday to outsource surgical instrument sterilization to Steris Corporation, an international provider of infection prevention products and services. The vote was an amendment to a previous resolution that's been in limbo since the board first approved the move in Nov. 2017.
Erlanger Health System regained some early fiscal year 2019 losses to finish the second quarter - which ended Dec. 31, 2018 - slightly above even at a year-to-date operating income of about $122,000.
Civil rights leader memorialized through a day of service to Chattanooga area
Last year's tax season had just ended when certified public accountants Travis Phillips and Alan King sat down for lunch, reflecting on the year. They began discussing emerging industries, contemplating their passions and the future.
General surgeon Walter Rose never imagined a future when robots would help perform surgery when he graduated from McCallie School in 1976.
Tennessee is one of the states hardest hit by hepatitis C, and the opioid epidemic is largely to blame, according to a new report.
Anyone can develop a hernia - a bulge or weakness usually from a muscle defect - and if left unrepaired the consequences can be dangerous.
Smoking kills nearly half a million people in the United States each year, but the deadly habit damages Americans' wallets, too.
