Erlanger Health System filed a certificate of need (CON) application on Feb. 26 for a new, $9.2 million radiation service building in North Georgia without a vote from the full board approving the move, according to board of trustee records and the Georgia Department of Community Health.
The question of who will provide health care services in Northwest Georgia is getting harder to answer.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects the health and wallets of more than 75 million U.S. adults, and the cost of managing this condition is growing, according to a new study from the Health Care Cost Institute.
Five candidates for Tennessee governor offered a glimpse of their potential plans to address the state's top health care issues during a forum in Nashville on Tuesday morning.
What if the simple choice of going to see a dentist wasn't available to you?
Between classes, extracurricular activities and peer pressure, high school can be hard enough without worrying about tobacco use and secondhand smoke, but Brainerd High School senior Dereke Townsend said it's "staggering" how often his peers use products containing nicotine.
Who needs scissors when you have a 1-ton, four-arm, million- dollar robot to cut ribbon for you?
Erlanger Health System plans to continue its recent spate of expansions, with an $11.3 million freestanding emergency department in Bradley County, said hospital CEO Kevin Spiegel.
Through the back window of her Soddy-Daisy home, Dora Sowell watches the Tennessee River. On warm summer days, it teems with water sports enthusiasts. But on this cool, gray morning in early February, she watches the water and thinks about something far more grim.
In the monthslong dispute between Erlanger Health System and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, a local hospital urged Erlanger's board of trustees to continue allowing doctors to do some of their training at other area hospitals.
