Local school program prepares students for medical careers JASPER, TN – Grandview Medical Center recently donated hundreds of medical supply items to the Health Science program in Marion County Schools as an effort to foster future medical careers among local students. “We would like to thank Grandview Medical Center for this generous donation,” said [...]
Grandview Medical Center’s Melanie Long, the hospital’s first staff member to hold the new patient liaison position, will be the first to tell you it’s not as much a matter of what she does in her work duties as how she does them. The patient liaison, or patient care tech, is a new clinical position [...]
Longtime Marion County paramedic Vicki Messer was recently named by the Tennessee Ambulance Service Association (TASA) as the recipient of its annual “Larry Griffin Paramedic Award”. Messer, a 25-year veteran of Marion County and Grandview Medical Center EMS, will receive the award at the organization’s annual gathering in Gatlinburg on Feb. 15. “I am excited,” [...]
Two thousand eleven was a pivotal and exciting year for Grandview Medical Center. Over 350 dedicated employees of your community hospital worked hard improving the health of residents of the Sequatchie Valley. More positive change is planned for 2012. Physicians and staff are looking forward to serving our families and friends. Here’s a recap of [...]
Jasper, TN – Grandview Medical Center is among a nationwide group of hospitals that participated in a successful initiative to increase patient safety by improving the processes and systems that facilities use to deliver health care. Through the National Patient Safety Initiative (NPSI), Grandview worked with Qsource, the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Tennessee, to [...]
JASPER, TN – A local nurse for over 15 years, Holly Stewart has been named as Grandview Medical Center’s Chief Quality Officer. Prior to her new appointment, Stewart was formerly the hospital’s Director of Quality for over six years. Her new position adds to her responsibilities an increased role in not only the hospital’s quality [...]
So there’s this blow-up pink flamingo named “Freda” in the administration department. No, that sentence is not the beginning of a joke; Freda was acquired several weeks ago for a different project – that actually needed a stork… To make a long story short, a flamingo is not a stork and never will be! So [...]
As the days grow shorter and cooler, it usually means more than just fall is around the corner. It can also announce the arrival of the flu “season” with all the fevers, achy muscles and sniffling that illness entails. As a result, Grandview Medical Center employees are building their own defenses against this scourge by [...]
Grandview Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s top performers on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America. Grandview was recognized by The Joint Commission based upon data reported about evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions, including heart [...]
The Marion County Chamber of Commerce named Grandview Medical Center as its “Large Business of the Year” at the organization’s annual banquet last Thursday. Chamber secretary and awards committee member Donna Sartin made the presentation. Because there were so many nominations made this year, chamber officials decided to bring back the “large”, “medium” and “small” [...]
