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Covenant Health Professionals Earn Advanced Certifications

Through advanced certification, healthcare professionals validate their mastery of skills, knowledge and abilities, and experience a sense of confidence and achievement. They also meet ongoing learning and practice requirements through recertification. Patients and families, employers and others all benefit from certification. Certification demonstrates to patients and families that the staff providing care has demonstrated experience, […]

Four Covenant Hospitals Recognized as Top Performers by The Joint Commission

Four Covenant Health Hospitals have been recognized as 2014 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States.

McKinley and VanderSteeg Recognized by THA at 77th Annual Meeting

VanderSteeg and McKinley were among 26 individuals honored during the THA event in which awards were presented in 14 categories, recognizing contributions from healthcare representatives ranging from hospital volunteers and frontline staff to trustees and executives.

Covenant Health Announces Leadership Succession Plan

Covenant Health, the major health system headquartered in Knoxville and the region’s largest employer, has announced plans for a leadership transition.

Hope Center Relocates

The Hope Center has moved! We are now located at the Covenant HomeCare Building in West Knoxville at the crossroads of Middlebrook Pike and Lake Brook Boulevard.

Covenant Health’s Heart Surgery Program Receives Highest Ratings from International Thoracic Surgeons Society

Covenant Health’s cardiac program has received the highest quality designation from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), an organization dedicated to ensuring the best possible outcomes for surgeries of the heart, lung and esophagus. The society represents nearly 7,000 surgeons, researchers and allied health care professionals worldwide. Based on data submitted from Covenant Health’s elite […]

Covenant Hospitals Named Among State’s Top 10 by U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World report has released its annual list of “America’s Best Hospitals,” naming three Covenant Health hospitals – Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Methodist Medical Center, and Parkwest Medical Center in Tennessee’s Top 10 for metro areas.

The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs of Covenant Health

Chronic pulmonary (lung) disease is costly in both dollars and lives. It is the fifth leading cause of death and disability in Tennessee.