Posts categorized as “Press Release”

How a Second Opinion Changed Everything

“I’ve had back pain for years, I guess since I was in my 30s. But when I retired it got worse and worse, until I could hardly walk and I would fall,” said Chaubin. “My legs from my hips down went numb about seven years ago.

Fort Sanders Regional Announces New Chief Nursing Officer

Kelly Miles, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, has recently joined Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center as Chief Nursing Officer (CNO).

Fort Sanders Regional Attains Highest Recognition for Efforts to Improve Elderly Care

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center has achieved “Exemplar” status for its NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) program.

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.