Erlanger gets state OK to buy PET scanner
Erlanger Health System is moving ahead with the purchase a $4.5 million high-tech scanner that executives hopes will serve future cancer and neuroscience centers at the hospital.
Chattanooga’s Homeless Health Care Center expands services
Mary Lakes doesn't know if she still would be alive if it wasn't for the Homeless Health Care Center.
Trying times for Obamacare
Tennessee's biggest health insurer, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, said Tuesday that 66,000 individual policy holders in the state are getting notices that their health plans must change to comply with the Affordable Care Act. The insurer is giving policy holders notice before the end of the year to help them transition to other BlueCross plans that cover the 10 essential benefits required under Obamacare, such as prescription drugs, mental health treatment and maternity care. BlueCross has 40,000 other individual policy holders who are grandfathered under the new law, Vaughn said.
Erlanger to stop hiring tobacco users
Erlanger Health System has appointed Jeffrey Woodard as its new chief legal officer.
Erlanger Health System names chief legal officer
Erlanger Health System has appointed Jeffrey Woodard as its new chief legal officer.
Doubts plague health care industry’s switch to digital records
In health care, there are patients and doctors; machines and medicines; office staffs and insurance companies.
Erlanger Health System becoming tobacco-free by November
By this time next month, all three of Chattanooga's hospitals will have kicked the tobacco habit.
Erlanger moving towards Lincoln Park land swap
Erlanger Health System's planning committee has approved a land swap that would allow the hospital to follow through with its pledge to turn over 5 acres of Lincoln Park property to the city.
Medicare change may cost patients: New ‘two midnights’ admissions rule affects hospitals, too
For many Medicare patients at the hospital, phrases like "inpatient" and "observation status" can easily blend in undetected with all the other medical and insurance lingo echoing around the halls.
Hutcheson to request additional funding
Hutcheson Medical Center's leadership has voted to ask for more money from Walker, Dade and Catoosa counties as it seeks a partner to lease or buy the hospital.