Baptist – which includes downtown Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee, Baptist Hospital West and Baptist Hospital for Women at Turkey Creek continue to add services, recently acquiring a system to deliver image-guided radiation therapy, helping doctors to locate and target tumors. The On-Board Imager uses robotic arms and reduces the need to treat healthy tissue around the tumor.

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center also made use of robotic arms which allows surgeons to operating through a dime-size incision. The technology promises fewer complications, less pain and quicker recovery.

Parkwest Medical Center completed full renovations, including a new 30 bed critical care unit with a family-centric waiting room as well as combining all imaging functions in the new six-story Riverstone Tower. Parkwest also acquired a new, faster MRI unit with higher imaging quality and Light Speed CT scanner with cardiac capabilities, and opened a new Sleep Disorders Lab in Riverstone.

St. Mary’s Health System broke ground on St. Mary’s Medical Center North, a $67-million, 1,800,000 square foot full service hospital near Interstate 75 and Emory Road. It has also been named the best in East Tennessee for cardiac surgery by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent provider of hospital ratings. St. Mary’s added new technology and services including 3-D biplane angiography, the Anodyne Therapy System, a newly available procedure that treats pelvic organ prolapse in women.

The University of Tennessee or UT Medical Center has everything from A to Z and beyond. The Medical Center campus is made up of six Centers. These Centers include: The UT Heart Lung Vascular Institute. The UT Brain and Spine Institute. The UT Center for Women’s Health. The Center for Orthopedic Programs of Excellence. The UT Trauma/Emergency Medicine and the UT Cancer Institute. UT Medical Center has obtained a 3D Iso C arm and the CyberKnife equipment.

There are also other reputable, state of the art technology hospitals with the outlying, bordering counties of Knox County. They include: Blount Memorial Hospital, Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Fort Loudoun Medical Center and Roane Medical Center.

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