News Releases

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – Area residents are invited to tune in for a day of miracles Saturday, May 31, as the 2003 Children’s Miracle Network Broadcast airs on WJHL News Channel 11. The 10-hour event ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}A certificate of need that will allow Wellmont Health System to build a 10-bed hospital in Hancock County last week received unanimous approval from the state Health Services and ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}Employees of the Wal-Mart Distribution Center in Midway have been recognized as top fund-raisers by Children’s Miracle Network, raising $66,200 for the children’s charity in 2002. The ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}  4/10/03   STEALTH TECHNOLOGY MAKES SINUS SURGERY SAFER AT WELLMONT BRISTOL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   BRISTOL – Sinus surgery is one of the most difficult tasks a physician can ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – When a stroke occurs, every second is critical. Any delay in treatment can result in a lifetime of devastating effects. That’s why Bristol Regional Medical Center has upgraded ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}  KINGSPORT – For a child, it’s scary to be sick. It’s even scarier to spend time in a hospital away from the comforts of home. But thanks to generous donors all over the region and the ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Barbara Polly knew there was a need for a chapel at Lonesome Pine Hospital. Days before the new chapel’s completion, she saw that need firsthand. “We were in the ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}Three Wellmont Health System hospitals are among 76 Tennessee hospitals recognized by the federal government for improving the quality of care provided to Medicare patients. Bristol ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}ROGERSVILLE – Hawkins County residents who need cataract surgery can now look to their hometown hospital for high-quality eye care. Hawkins County Memorial Hospital has begun offering ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – The echocardiography laboratory at Bristol Regional Medical Center has earned accreditation from the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – The cardiac rehabilitation program offered by Holston Valley Medical Center’s cardiopulmonary rehabilitation department was recently certified by the American Association of ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – A $2 million donation from a Bristol couple will allow Wellmont Health System to become one of the first healthcare providers in the United States to acquire groundbreaking ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}SNEEDVILLE – U.S. Rep. Bill Jenkins joined Wellmont Health System officials and Hancock County leaders today to dedicate the site for a new hospital in Sneedville. The site dedication ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}The nuclear medicine program at Bristol Regional Medical Center has become the first such program in the state to earn accreditation from the American College of Radiology. The ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – The nuclear medicine program at Bristol Regional Medical Center has become the first such program in the state to earn accreditation from the American College of Radiology. The ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Wellmont Lonesome Pine Hospital and its laboratory have been reaccredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for a three-year term. ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}ROGERSVILLE – Joe Kozakowski knows what it’s like to suffer from a sleep disorder. “I couldn’t stay awake during the day, and I couldn’t get to sleep at night,” said Kozakowski, Hawkins ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}BRISTOL – The pulmonary rehabilitation department at Bristol Regional Medical Center has achieved recertification from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}KINGSPORT – Wellmont Health System, the region’s premier provider of healthcare services, will seek state approval to construct a 10-bed hospital in Sneedville to serve the residents of ...

#VOCUSHTML{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;}ROGERSVILLE – There are few diseases more terrible than cancer, an incessant ravager with treatments whose side effects are sometimes worse than the symptoms of the disease itself. One ...