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Remembering Durant Tullock
September 28, 2021Durant Tullock was an amazing individual with a great love for his hometown, its people and its history. He was a tireless advocate for Etowah and for Starr Regional Medical Center.
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Starr Regional Diabetes Center Merits ADA Recognition
September 20, 2021Starr Regional Medical Center is proud to announce today that its Diabetes Center was awarded the prestigious American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Certificate for a quality diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) service. American Diabetes Association (ADA) believes that this service offers high-quality education that is essential for effective diabetes treatment.
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Starr Regional Medical Center welcomes Dane Bolton, DO
September 16, 2021Starr Regional Medical Center today announced that Dane Bolton, DO, has joined its staff and will offer sports medicine and orthopedic surgical services to patients in Athens and the surrounding communities.
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Letter from CEO John McLain
September 10, 2021McMinn County is once again experiencing historic numbers since our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic began, and these numbers continue to rise rapidly. The numbers include not only individuals who are COVID-19 positive, but also the number of our family members, friends and neighbors who are hospitalized from this virus.
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Starr Regional Medical Center Publishes 2020 Community Benefit Report
August 27, 2021Starr Regional Medical Center today published its community benefit report for the 2020 calendar year. The annual report showcases the broad scope of the hospital’s contributions to McMinn County and illustrates the many ways the organization contributes to the physical and economic health of the communities it serves – an investment which became even more essential in a historic year.
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Starr Regional Medical Center Announces Visitation Policy Updates
August 20, 2021Starr Regional Medical Center - Athens announced today that it is transitioning to limited visitation protocol, effective Monday, August 23, 2021. The decision to update the visitation policy was made as a result of the notable increase in COVID-19 cases in McMinn County and its surrounding communities. The updated policy allows inpatients to have only two well visitors. Patients requiring outpatient or emergency services may have only one accompanying person if required for support. A parent or guardian must be present with pediatric patients at all times.
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Your Health Means Everything: Protect It with Immunizations
August 10, 2021If a researcher were to sit down at the end of 2021 and tabulate and record the number of times individual key words were mentioned over the course of the year, “vaccine” would surely be near the top. The advent of COVID-19 vaccines and the key role they have played in slowing the spread of the virus and helping us get closer to pandemic’s end has not only been at the forefront of global discourse but has also served as a reminder of how effective vaccination – or immunization, as it is also known – can be in protecting us from a number of illnesses both mild and severe.
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Starr Regional Health & Rehabilitation Earns Five-Star CMS Rating for Overall Quality
August 10, 2021Starr Regional Health & Rehabilitation (SRHR) today announced that it has been awarded five stars in the Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System published on the Nursing Home Compare website by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Nursing homes with five stars are considered to have exceeded average quality on a consistent basis. SRHR’s five-star rating places the facility in the top 22 percent of all nursing homes in the state with respect to health inspections, staffing and quality measures. Only 68 of the 312 nursing homes in Tennessee rated received five stars.
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