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Champions of Health Care 2026: Lifetime Achievement honoree Steven Paynter built a career by following a calling
When you practice general surgery for nearly 40 years, the numbers really start to stack up. By the time he retired in late 2025, Steven Paynter had performed more than 5,000 gallbladder surgeries, 2,000 hernia operations, 2,000 breast operations, 1,000 colon surgeries and 500 hiatal hernia procedures.
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Champions of Health Care 2026: MobileMOC connects older adults in rural Tennessee communities with team-based care
Many rural counties in Tennessee are considered health care provider shortage areas, with zero to three primary care providers and even fewer service providers specializing in areas such as occupational therapy, nutrition and social work.
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Champions of Health Care 2026: Jennifer Nicely is building a foundation for health care at CommonSpirit Memorial
Jennifer Nicely grew up in a family devoted to philanthropy. Her parents chaired both the local United Way and Heart Association campaigns.
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5 things AI can’t replace in health care
Every week seems to bring another breakthrough in artificial intelligence. AI can summarize medical records, analyze X-rays, answer patient questions and even help physicians diagnose diseases. While these advances will transform health care in remarkable ways, they won't replace what matters most. In fact, as AI becomes more capable, the uniquely human side of health care becomes even more valuable. AI won't replace health care, but it will amplify what humans contribute most.
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Chattanooga Surgical Foundation invests in next generation of doctors
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Chattanooga company turns amniotic membranes into powerful grafts
On the second floor of an office building on Cherry Street, several bags hang from a metal rack in a room sealed with a fingerprint-controlled padlock.
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AI hallucinations: When making things up is an advantage
There's a moment every new AI user eventually hits. You ask ChatGPT a perfectly reasonable question about a court case, a book chapter, a historical figure, and it answers with total confidence. Then you go verify it, and the source doesn't exist. The case is made up. The book has no such passage. The person never said that.
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Why young Americans need purpose, not just a paycheck
In his book "The Psychology of Money," Morgan Housel argues that "every decision people make with money is justified by taking the information they have at the moment and plugging it into their unique mental model of how the world works." As an example, he attempts to generate a rationale for why the "lowest-income households in the U.S. on average spend $412 a year on lotto tickets, four times the amount of those in the highest income groups," and comes up with this imagined monologue:
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How Kunin is helping rebuild America’s critical mineral supply chain
* CEO & Founder: Daniel Rau
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Why championing health and well-being matters now more than ever
Working in health care can be one of the most taxing professions -- not only for those directly involved with patient care, but all positions tied to the hospital or facility. Any HR professional working in the industry, myself included, can tell you that everything must be in order to retain licensure. This means making sure mind-numbing audits are passed and regulatory requirements are met to keep the doors open.
