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CHI Memorial Medical Group is pleased to announce Charles Tapley, MD, has joined CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates - North River
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CHI Memorial Medical Group is pleased to announce Julie Munson-Jackson, MD, has joined CHI Memorial Internal Medicine Associates - Chattanooga.
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CHI Memorial Medical Group is pleased to announce Brent Meadows, DO, has joined CHI Memorial Internal Medicine Associates - Chattanooga.
READ MORE Additional information about Brent Meadows, DO, Joins CHI Memorial Internal Medicine AssociatesCardiothoracic surgeon John Craig, MD, FACS, has joined The Chattanooga Heart Institute. He specializes in all aspects of cardiac surgery. Dr. Craig has more than a decade of experience as a cardiothoracic surgeon.
The CHI Memorial Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program in Chattanooga, Tennessee, under the leadership of Residency Program Director, Karen Babb, PharmD, was recently recognized by the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA) as the 2022 Tennessee Health-System Pharmacy Residency Program of the Year.
CHI Memorial has received the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Chest Pain - MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2022.
CHI Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce Karen Sloan, annual fund coordinator, has been named a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) by CFRE International.
CHI Memorial is pleased to welcome Christie Kizer Burbank as the market director senior legal counsel.
CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga and Hospital Hixson both received an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for spring 2022. This national distinction recognizes CHI Memorial’s achievements in protecting patients from preventable harm and error in the hospital.
Julie Andrews, RN, recently received the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
On Friday, April 29, 2022, the Georgia Department of Community Health announced its approval of CHI Memorial’s certificate of need (CON) application to build a new hospital in Ringgold, GA.
CHI Memorial is pleased to announce its new licensed practice nurse (LPN) residency program will begin in July 2022.
CHI Memorial is excited to welcome student volunteers to the hospitals for the Summer 2022 term.
The MaryEllen Locher Breast Center at CHI Memorial is giving away free t-shirts to all women who have a screening mammogram during the month of April. The offer is good at all four MaryEllen Locher Breast Center locations and the mobile coaches.
CHI Memorial is pleased to announce its has received accreditation as a Comprehensive Center in Bariatric Surgery with Obesity Medicine Qualifications by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabol
Board-certified imaging and general cardiologist Henry Cheng, MD, has joined The Chattanooga Heart Institute.
Kellie Shelton, RN, and CJ Jenkins, RN, recently received the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
CHI Memorial Medical Group is pleased to announce Amanda Smith, FNP, has joined CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates – Trenton.
The American College of Cardiology has recognized CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga and Hospital Hixson for their demonstrated expertise and commitment in treating patients with chest pain.
Jordan Howard, Vanessa Todd, Teresa Shirley, Kelly Gildernew, Ed Tempel, Kristi Edington, and Grace Greene, all nurses at CHI Memorial, recently received the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Jaime Ponce, MD, bariatric surgeon and medical director of CHI Memorial Metabolic and Bariatric Care, has been certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM) as an ABOM diplomate.
CHI Memorial Medical Group is pleased to announce Erin Miller Simpson, FNP-C, has joined CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates – Ringgold.
CHI Memorial Medical Group is pleased to announce the opening of CHI Memorial Endocrinology Associates, a practice that provides comprehensive medical management and care for conditions like type 1 and 2 diabetes, thyroid disease, thyroid cancer, and a range of metabolic, pituitary, and adrenal disorders.
Cardiothoracic surgeon Matthew Richey, MD, has joined The Chattanooga Heart Institute.
CHI Memorial received an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for fall 2021. This national distinction recognizes CHI Memorial’s achievements in protecting patients from harm and error in the hospital.
The MaryEllen Locher Scholarship Fund at CHI Memorial Foundation is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 school year, focusing on awarding college scholarships to the children of breast cancer patients.
CHI Memorial Foundation and The MaryEllen Locher Scholarship Foundation are pleased to announce they have joined together. The CHI Memorial Foundation will take over all daily operations of the Scholarship Foundation, including, but not limited to, the application process, fundraising efforts, receiving donations, and disbursement of scholarship
