Tanner Health System News
Expanded access to nonsurgical, minimally invasive heart and vascular services is now available with a new, state-of-the-art endovascular lab now online at Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica. Mary Rhyne, the first patient served by the new endovascular lab at Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, speaks with cardiologist Dr. Onaje Greene with Tanner Heart & Vascular Specialists before her procedure. The new endovascular catheterization lab makes access to nonsurgical, minimally invasive heart and vascular...
Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica and Higgins General Hospital are among just 13 hospitals in Georgia included on the Joint Commission’s first ever list of top performers. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. To earn and maintain The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of A...
Vascular expertise is coming to more people in west Georgia as Heather Park, MD, a board-certified surgeon, joins the patient care team at Tanner Vascular Surgery and the practice expands to add a second location in Villa Rica. Dr. Park earned her medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C., and completed her residency in general surgery and her fellowship in vascular surgery at UNC Health Care. At Tanner, Dr. Park joins Glenn Whitney, MD, also board-cert...