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Starr Regional Medical Center awarded Acute Stroke Ready Hospital Certification from The Joint Commission
May 12, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Acute Stroke Ready Hospital Certification.
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Timothy Collins, MD, and Robert Preston selected to serve on Starr Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees
May 6, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center announced today that Timothy Collins, MD, and Robert Preston have been selected to serve on the hospital’s Board of Trustees. Collins and Preston fill the seats left by Carter Runyan and Vickie Turnbough, MD, whose terms ended December 2024.
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Starr Regional Medical Center Earns an ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group
May 1, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety. Leapfrog assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries and infections...
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You Can Help Stop the Spread – Safeguarding Our Community Against Measles
May 1, 2025
Over the past few months, measles outbreaks have been reported in various locations across the United States, including here in Tennessee. In my role as Infection Preventionist at Starr Regional Medical Center, it is important to me that our community understands the potential severity of this illness and how to...
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Starr Regional Medical Center Publishes 2024 Community Benefit Report
April 15, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center today published its community benefit report for the 2024 calendar year. This annual report outlines the various ways the hospital is working to support the health and economic vitality of the McMinn County as part of its mission of making communities healthier®.
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Starr Regional Medical Center Honors Employees for Years of Service
April 14, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center recently hosted its annual Service Awards Banquet to honor employees who achieved 5 years or more of service (in 5-year increments) between January 1 and December 31, 2024, as well as employees who received recognition throughout the year as winners of the 2024 Mercy Award, The...
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Teddie Hambaugh, RN, recognized as DAISY Award Recipient at Starr Regional Medical Center
April 10, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center announced today that Teddie Hambaugh, RN, has been named the recipient of The DAISY Award for the first quarter of 2025. The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses is a recognition program honoring “the super-human work nurses do for patients and families every day.” Nominations for the...
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Rudy Swafford: Heart Patient
April 4, 2025
Rudy woke up knowing something was not right but wasn’t sure what was wrong. He went to the Starr Regional Medical Center Emergency Department in Athens where he shared with the registration clerk that he was experiencing pain in his arm, chest and back.
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Starr Regional Medical Center to host March Lunch & Learn
March 19, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center will host the March “Healthy Community Lunch & Learn” on Wednesday, March 26 at 12 p.m. on the Athens campus. March is National Nutrition Month and Jackie Berry, MS, RD, LDN, director of Community Wellness, will present “Activity + Eating” and discuss finding a balance that...
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Starr Regional Medical Center Unveils New Surgical Robot
February 21, 2025
Starr Regional Medical Center announced an addition to its surgical services offerings today with the purchase of a new surgical robot. The da Vinci surgical system, located tableside in the operating room, is designed to help surgeons perform minimally invasive surgery and allows a surgeon's hand movements to be scaled,...
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