Baptist Hospital - Improve Your Health
The Knox News Sentinel has featured articles about Baptist Hospital for the past 2 days and we can only hope that this means Baptist is ready to throw up the white flag and make peace with its enemies.
Baptist Hospital has an ongoing feud with Covenant and other local health care providers that has hindered the growth of the hospital and hurt Baptist financially. I have been following the news coverage closely because it would be a huge loss for the Knoxville community if Baptist Hospital files for Bankruptcy.
Baptist Hospital has wonderful facilities and a lot of wonderful ammenities to offer the Knoxville community but has struggled to attract potential customers/patients because the hospital is an out-of-network location for most of the local insurance plans, like Covenant’s Cariten. The patients that visit Baptist Hospital typically fall in love with the staff and facilities, but most Knoxville residents won’t even consider visiting the hospital due to the lack of insurance coverage as noted in the following excerpt from yesterday’s News Sentinel article.
Baptist is not the worst situation James has seen. She said Baptist continues to have a great reputation and great programs as well as a lot of support and a tremendous amount of loyalty. In coming days, James said she plans to make courtesy calls to senior health-care leaders in town as part of a longer-term solution. “It’s fair to say that in my very short tenure here that the organization has the need to both cultivate some allies as well as mend some fences in the community overall,” James said.
The article that appeared in today’s paper highlighted on the financial difficulties that Baptist has faced and the appointment of two replacement administrators for the hospitals operating staff. Hopefully these new officials will be able to lead Baptist to a long and prosperous future, something that has been a difficult challenge for the previous leadership.
For those interested, the following is a short list of Knoxville area Hospitals:
Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee
137 Blount Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37920
865-632-5011
www.baptistoneword.org
Baptist Hospital West
10820 Parkside Drive
Knoxville, TN 37922
865-218-7011
www.baptistoneword.org
East TN Children’s Hospital
2018 W. Clinch Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37916
865-541-8000
www.etch.com
Fort Sanders Park West Medical Center
9352 Parkwest Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37923
865-693-5151
www.yesparkwest.com
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
1901 Clinch Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37916
865-541-1111
www.fsregional.com
St. Mary’s Medical Center
900 E Oak Hill Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37917
865-545-8000
www.mercy.com
University of Tennessee Medical Center
1924 Alcoa Hwy.
Knoxville, TN 37929
865-544-9000
www.utmedicalcenter.org
