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...
Rajat Jhanjee, MD, a fellowship-trained clinical electrophysiologist and board-certified cardiologist, is joining Tanner Heart & Vascular Specialists, adding clinical electrophysiology to Tanner’s line of advanced cardiac services. Dr. Jhanjee earned a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and worked as an electrical engineer for Dallas Semiconductor and Guidant Co. before enrolling in medical school at the University of Minnesota. There, he earned ...
David Lambert of Carrollton presents a bouquet of red roses to Rhonda Robinson, RN (left), and Georgia Bell, RN (center), who were part of the Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton emergency department team on Valentine's Day 2011 when Lambert arrived, having chest pains. Lambert wanted to recognize the team that he credited for quickly getting him from the door of the ED to the cardiac catheterization lab, where Shazib Khawaja, MD, chief of interventional cardiology and endovascular interventions for Tanner...
Shazib Khawaja, MD, board-certified in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, endovascular medicine and vascular medicine with Tanner Heart & Vascular Specialists, part of Tanner Medical Group, and the cardiology medical operations leader for Tanner Health System, has been ranked among the top 1 percent of physicians in the nation for 2012 by U.S. News and World Report . One of America’s leading weekly news magazines, U.S. News and World Report is heralded for its valuable rankings that...
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...
Tanner Heart & Vascular Specialists, a Tanner Medical Group practice, has received accreditation by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL) for the nuclear cardiology stress testing laboratories located inside its Carrollton and Villa Rica offices. “ICANL accreditation status signifies that our facilities have been reviewed by an independent agency that recognizes our commitment to quality testing for the diagnosis of heart disease,” said Onaje Gree...