Tanner Health System News
More than 1,800 people thronged the new emergency department and expanded surgical services unit at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton on Saturday, Jan. 26, being among the first to get a glance at the future of health care in the region. Visitors began arriving as much as 30 minutes before the open house began at 10 a.m. and many stayed after displays and tours began to wrap up at 2 p.m., trying to take in as much of the new expansion as possible. Tanner staff offered tours of the hospital’s new, 40-bed ...
The Carrollton Dawnbreakers Rotary Club donated more than 1,000 children’s books for young visitors to the Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton Emergency Department. The books were given in celebration of Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton’s emergency department and surgical services open house on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and to launch the Tanner ReadER program . The program strives to improve local literacy rates by making books accessible to area children to foster an interest in reading whenever pos...
After about two years of construction and another five months of renovations, the new emergency department at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton took its first patients Thursday morning. Marlene Bilyeu, a resident of Sunset Hills in Carrollton, was the first patient to arrive in the new emergency department, arriving at 7:01 a.m., about a minute after the doors for the new unit were unlocked. “We didn’t think we were going to be the first patients in the new emergency department, but we thought we’d probab...
After almost five months of delays, the public is finally going to get a first look at the new emergency department and surgical services unit at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton. The public is invited to tour the new expansion on Saturday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free parking is available in the Clinic Avenue Parking Deck on campus, adjacent to the new emergency department. Originally scheduled for August, the open house was put off indefinitely when a fire suppression line in the newly construc...
It will take several months of work and renovation before the new emergency department at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton is ready to be opened for use. The unit’s opening was delayed days before a scheduled open house event that would have given the community a first look at the facility when a failure in a fire suppression line in the unit released more than 12,000 gallons of water into the unit, flooding the new emergency department. The water damaged drywall, cabinets, flooring and some clinical eq...
Chief Jimmy Bearden with the City of Carrollton Fire Department and Tanner Health System President and CEO Loy Howard discuss two Stryker evacuation chairs donated by the health system. Thursday afternoon, Tanner Health System President and CEO Loy Howard recalled what he saw when he arrived at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton that August night when a fire suppression line in the hospital’s new emergency department ruptured. “The first thing I saw were Carrollton firefighters in full gear coming out thr...
After enduring pain in his shoulders for a few days, Roopville resident Ray Mashburn finally decided to get himself checked out. Mashburn went to the emergency department at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, where the patient care team began performing a series of tests and labs, all of which came back normal. Still, Timothy Paul, MD, a board-certified emergency physician with Carrollton Emergency Physicians and a member of the medical staff at Tanner Health System, knew something wasn’t right. “Dr. Pau...