Dr. Wendy Halsey-Richardson is the owner and practicing audiologist of Chattanooga’s Healthy Hearing located at 9298 Apison Pike in Ooltewah.
“I’ve been in the field for 22 years, and we see patients ages birth to 100-plus,” she said of her practice, which is now in its seventh year at its current location.
Dr. Halsey-Richardson diagnoses and treats hearing loss from every gamut of the spectrum, including offering screenings for newborns to make sure hearing loss is normal at birth, to fitting hearing aids for baby boomers.
“I picked this location because this is my community and I really want to be a business owner that relates to others in the community,” she said. “We try to give back as well as service the folks who live here.”
One such instance of giving back is the business’s “gift of hearing” during the holiday season. Dr. Halsey-Richardson extends an offer to locals in need of hearing aids to submit written essays stating why they need hearing assistance and offers the winner a free set of hearing aids. “We want to help someone through this program who cannot get help anywhere else,” she said. “That’s just one thing we do, and we may do something different this year.”