Elizabeth Fite

CHI Memorial is launching a six-week, online video series starting Thursday, June 24, aimed at educating people with dementia and their caregivers to navigate the complexities of the disease.

CHI Memorial is investing more than $100 million to significantly upgrade and modernize its health care offerings in North Georgia by building a new expansion hospital in Catoosa County along Battlefield Parkway between Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe.

Front-line health care workers were the first in line when COVID-19 shots became available in December, but polling shows that medical professionals can be vaccine-hesitant, too, leaving some with concerns about the vaccines to question whether health care professionals know something the rest of us don't.

Six months ago marks when the first American outside of clinical trials received a COVID-19 shot, and many people who are vaccine-hesitant may worry that enough still isn't known about potential adverse events or long-term effects of vaccination.

Vaccines teach the immune system to fight disease by creating antibodies.

Those hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine sometimes have basic questions such as, what's in it.

Whether you're worried about getting a COVID-19 vaccine or are already inoculated and want to help sway your hesitant friends and family, it may help to know the science behind some common vaccine fears and misconceptions.

Alzheimer's disease is more than just a professional concern for Dr. Berneet Kaur.

A popular ride-share program for seniors is looking to expand services to more areas of Hamilton County but needs volunteers, as many had to stop helping when the pandemic started.

Amy Morrow was dodging boulders as she hiked through her yard on Lookout Mountain when she felt what she thought was a stick jabbing between her toes. She had just finished watching a storm roll in as the sun set from the bluff behind her home.

Even unvaccinated residents of the Chattanooga region are experiencing reduced COVID-19 transmission thanks primarily to the vaccination of others.

Tennessee will receive more than $53 million in additional funding from the federal government to address mental health and addiction treatment needs driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, state officials announced Thursday.

CHI Memorial is set to start outpatient surgery this week at the health system's medical office complex along Battlefield Parkway between Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe in Catoosa County, Georgia.

Hamilton County has gone without a mask mandate for a month now, and COVID-19 cases continue to trend down, thanks in large part to the availability of highly effective vaccines.

Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital has broken ground on its new $1.56 million, 6,200-square-foot medical office building, which will expand much-needed primary care to residents of the Cumberland Plateau and Sequatchie Valley at a time when many rural communities across the country are seeing similar services disappear.

Certified public accountant and veteran health care administrator Lynn DeJaco has been named interim chief financial officer at Erlanger Health System.

Erlanger Health System leadership revealed the most ambitious budget for the hospital in recent years on Monday, projecting a net income of $20 million and plans to invest $37 million in capital in the 2022 fiscal year, which will start July 1.

Federal health officials this week released new guidelines for fully vaccinated people, saying they no longer need to wear face masks or socially distance to protect themselves from COVID-19.

A bill barring state and local government agencies from requiring COVID-19 vaccines — including public schools and universities — is heading to Gov. Bill Lee's desk after it passed the Tennessee General Assembly last week.

COVID-19 vaccination sites look much different today compared to several months ago, when eager drivers would often sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic to get their long-awaited first vaccine dose.