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...
John Pearson, MD, a board-certified urologist, is joining West Georgia Urology and the medical staff of Tanner Health System. Dr. Pearson earned his medical degree from Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. He completed a surgical internship as well as a fellowship in cancer research and urology at the University of California, San Francisco. He also served as a lieutenant commander at Naval Hospital Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. Pearson is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a m...
Loy Howard, president and CEO of Tanner Health System, left, and Dr. John Burson, chairman of Tanner’s board of directors, received Outstanding Patient Experience Awards for Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica from Katherine Henchen, with HealthGrades. The ratings firm ranked the facilities among the top 10 percent in the nation for patient satisfaction. For the second year in a row, Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica rank among the to...
Loy Howard, president and CEO of Tanner Health System, has been appointed to the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Board of Directors. As a member of the alliance’s board, Howard will share his knowledge on current issues affecting Georgia’s community not-for-profit hospitals, as state lawmakers deliberate on community benefit, hospital tax and policy issues that impact Georgians’ access to care. “This is a tremendous honor, not only for me, but for Tanner and our local community,” said Howard. “I...
Tanner Health System’s newest diagnostic imaging service is now open – wide open. The health system’s new Open MRI is now in service, affording a new level of comfort for overweight patients, the elderly and small children. The traditional MRI systems with which most people are familiar require patients to lie down inside a tube while images are taken. The new Philips High-Field Open MRI system in the Patient Services building at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton features a broad, nearly 360-degree openin...
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 ...
Patients who turn to Tanner Health System’s emergency departments for chronic pain medications will receive help—if not a prescription—from a new pain management policy now in place. As rising levels of prescription drug abuse become a national problem and draw increasing concern from local law enforcement agencies, Tanner hopes the new policy will help both residents who may have an addiction to prescription pain medication and those who are living with untreated chronic pain. “As physicians, we’re goi...
The Carroll County Schools and Tanner Health System have kicked off the second year of Tanner Connections, an initiative to give area high school students a look inside health care and the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Thirteen College and Career Academy students from Carroll County Schools will be participating in the first semester of the program this year, with more students anticipated to join the program for the second semester. Last year—the inaugural year of the program—began with eig...
For some of the best care in the country, area residents need look no further than down the street, according to the nation’s leading independent source of physician information and hospital quality ratings. HealthGrades this week published its 2011 “Healthcare Consumerism and Hospital Quality in America” report, evaluating patient outcomes at nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide. Outcomes were measured based on mortality or in-hospital complications. For the third year in a row, Tanner Medical Center/Carro...
Tanner Health System recently recognized its long-term employees for their years of service. Employees with 10 and 15 years of service were honored at a luncheon, while employees with 20 years and above were honored at a banquet featuring Illusionist/mentalist Joe Turner. Among those honored at the banquet were Higgins General Hospital employee Sue C. Smith and Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton employee Alton “Mickey” Trammell, both with an amazing 45 years of service. The complete list of honorees is av...