Tanner Health System News
For people in the market for a job, some of the best places to work in metro Atlanta are right here in west Georgia. For a fifth time, Tanner Health System has been named one of the region’s top 10 “Best Places to Work” among large employers by the Atlanta Business Chronicle – Atlanta’s leading business publication. Tanner previously earned the distinction in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. For 2011, Tanner ranked ninth. With more than 2,500 employees, Tanner is Carroll County’s second-largest employer behind...
Patients arriving for emergency medical care at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton will soon have a new destination. The new emergency department at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton will open Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7 a.m. Drop-off and walk-in patients and visitors are asked to use the new emergency department entrance along Ambulance Drive, near the corner of Clinic Avenue. Reserved parking for emergency department patients and visitors will be available on the first level of the Clinic Avenue parking deck a...
Officials from Tanner Health System and several other local agencies broke ground Wednesday on the new Tanner/East Alabama medical complex in Wedowee, Ala. Dignitaries from the Randolph County and Wedowee hospital authorities, physicians and advanced practice providers, local elected leaders, members of the board for the Randolph County Chamber of Commerce, planning commissioners and others participated in the groundbreaking, held on the site where the facility will be constructed along South Main Street...
Tanner Health System contributed almost $662.3 million to the region’s economy and created more than 5,300 full-time jobs in 2010, according to a new report from the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA). The impact represents a more than 4 percent increase from 2009’s economic impact. The 2010 data is the latest available from the Georgia Department of Community Health. “We are fortunate that, even as other healthcare systems struggle to cut costs and eliminate jobs, we’re able to continue growing and cre...
Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has named Tanner Health System one of the 15 Top Health Systems in the nation . Tanner was listed among small health systems, but was the only health system in Georgia on the list in any category – small, medium or large. Researchers from Thomson Reuters analyzed the clinical quality and efficiency of more than 300 health systems from across the country to identify the top 15. This is Thomson Reuters...