hospitals
Millions poured into new health-care facilities, services
By cooper | 3:33 pm, 09/07/2007The Knoxville area’s population is growing, spreading out and getting older.
That led the region’s three largest hospital operators to fortify their investments and make additional ones in facilities, services and technology.
Here’s a roundup of what’s occurred this year.
- Covenant Health continues with construction of the $110 million Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center, which replaces an existing facility across Middlesettlements Creek Road in Sevierville.
East Tennessee Hospitals
KNOX COUNTY
Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee
137 Blount Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-632-5011
www.baptistoneword.org
Baptist Hospital West/Baptist Hospital for Women
10820 Parkside Drive
Knoxville, TN 37922
865-218-7011 (West); 865-218-6011 (Women)
www.baptistoneword.org
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
2018 W. Clinch Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37916
865-541-8000
www.etch.com
Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37923
865-373-1000
www.yesparkwest.com
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37916
865-541-1111
www.fsregional.com
St. Mary's Medical Center
900 E. Oak Hill Ave.
Hospitals & Health Care
For Knoxville hospitals 2006 was a year of record in several ways.
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center delivered a record 3,043 babies last year, including 66 sets of twins, eight sets of triplets and a set of quadruplets. More than 15,000 babies have been delivered at the hospital since 2006.
The University of Tennessee Medical Center saw a record number of patients - about 55,000 - in its emergency department, including a record 3,712 in its level I trauma center.
