Posts categorized as “Press Release”

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Awarded Advanced Certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center

Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification recognizes those hospitals that have state-of-the-art infrastructure, staff and training to receive and treat patients with the most complex strokes.

Statement Concerning NECC injections and Covenant Health

Covenant Health hospitals and Covenant Health owned affiliated organizations have not purchased any injectable medications from New England Compounding Center (NECC), the company under investigation for providing medication traced to outbreaks of fungal meningitis in steroid injections. For updated information about the FDA/CDC investigations, please visit www.fda.gov or www.cdc.gov. If you have any concerns about […]

Fort Sanders Introduces First “Tele-Stroke” Robot

Thanks to Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center’s new “tele-stroke” robot, East Tennessee stroke patients now will benefit from early consultation with the hospital’s stroke experts.

Fort Sanders Regional Continues Innovations in Robotically-Assisted Surgery

Since first introducing the technology to East Tennessee in 2004, surgeons at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center continue to pioneer new techniques and uses for robotically-assisted surgery.