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Fourteen Functions to a Healthy Lifestyle in 2017

Check out these tips from our clinical dietitian to have a healthy and happy 2017! By: Kim E. Pryor, MS, RDN, LDN 1. A good night’s rest is the way to start the day. Adults should aim for 8 restful hours each night. Habitual sleep is good and necessary! 2. Plan your meals ahead of time. […]

The Gift of Healing

  Nine days before Christmas hospital chaplain Randy Tingle was checking his list – twice. After all, finding anything in his office at that time of year is next to impossible. Bags full of gifts were scattered all about, making it difficult to get behind his desk inside Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. The bags, […]

Room with a View

When interventional radiologist Keith Woodward, MD, repairs an aneurysm, Adam Hill stands beside him and hands him the instruments. But on a recent November afternoon, Adam, who works in the interventional radiology lab at Fort Sanders Regional’s Comprehensive Stroke Center, was in a different position. He was Dr. Woodward’s patient. A brain aneurysm in an artery […]

Room with a View

When interventional radiologist Keith Woodward, MD, repairs an aneurysm, Adam Hill stands beside the surgeon and hands him the instruments. But on a recent November afternoon, the 33-year-old manager of interventional radiological technicians at Fort Sanders Regional’s Comprehensive Stroke Center was in a different position. He was Dr. Woodward’s patient. A brain aneurysm in an […]

A Whole New World for Husband and Wife

It takes a lot of energy to be the parent of teenagers, and that energy  is harder to come by if you’re morbidly obese. When Daniel and Stacey Rorie began having trouble keeping up with their kids, they decided it was time to do something about it. “We couldn’t do a lot of the things […]

Qualified and Compassionate

The surgeons at the Fort Sanders Center for Bariatric Surgery are well experienced, and all are certified through the American College of Surgeons, with specialization in bariatrics. That experience goes a long way in making patients feel secure about trusting the center for weight loss services. But there’s another kind of experience you’ll find here. […]