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Highpoint Health – Riverview & Trousdale Earn 2024 Performance Leadership Awards from The Chartis Center for Rural Health
December 10, 2024As part of National Rural Health Day honored at the end of November, Highpoint Health – Riverview and Trousdale announced they have earned a 2024 Performance Leadership Award for excellence in both Patient Perspective and Quality Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health.
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Highpoint Health – Sumner Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary of Milk Bank Depot and Expands Services to Provide Human Donor Milk
November 21, 2024Highpoint Health – Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas recently celebrated the two-year anniversary of its Milk Bank Depot, which has collected an incredible 6,183 ounces of milk for babies across Tennessee since its opening. This milestone comes with exciting news: Highpoint Health – Sumner is not only a drop off location for donor milk, but the Women’s Services department will now begin to receive milk.
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Highpoint Health Imaging for Women Announces Addition of Sensory Suite to Enhance 3D Mammography Experience
October 02, 2024Just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Highpoint Health Imaging for Women with Ascension Saint Thomas happily announces the incorporation of a new sensory suite to its comprehensive women’s imaging services. This latest addition is designed to enhance the patient’s ability to relax and get comfortable during 3D mammograms, a crucial screening tool for early breast cancer detection.
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Highpoint Health - Riverview Earns 5 Star CMS Rating for Overall Quality
September 11, 2024Riverview’s Overall Hospital Quality 5-Star Rating puts it among the top hospitals in the U.S. with respect to patient safety and the overall patient experience.
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We Talk About it To Honor the Memory, A Suicide Awareness Story
September 04, 2024September is Suicide Awareness Month. To help prevent a preventable tragedy, Toni Reid, an employee at Highpoint Health, shares her family's story.
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Healthcare Costs Become More Transparent, as Highpoint Health -- Sumner Connects with Clear Health
August 28, 2024This partnership aims to empower patients by providing them with clear insights into their out-of-pocket expenses before receiving care at Highpoint Health’s Gallatin campus. Patients will now receive personalized notifications, either via text or email, offering them a discounted rate for procedures if they choose to make advance payments.
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World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding Support For All
August 07, 2024At Highpoint Health – Sumner and Highpoint Health – Riverview, we are proud to join the action and participate in WBW 2024 and provide support to the breastfeeding moms in our area – those at work and at home, first-time moms to fourth-time moms and beyond, single moms and married moms.
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Healthy Habits to Ensure a Successful School Year for Kids
July 30, 2024When the days get shorter, it’s a good sign that another school year is just around the corner. While there are many unknowns as to what the next school year will bring, it’s important to build structure and routine to help ensure that your family is ready for another successful and healthy school term.
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Highpoint Health Announces Plans to Bring First-ever Emergency Care Location to White House
July 17, 2024Highpoint Health intends to file a Certificate of Need application to build a free-standing emergency department (FSED) in White House, Tennessee—the first emergency care location in the growing community.
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Sumner Station ER Set to Expand Licensed Beds
July 10, 2024Residents will see a significant benefit through the expansion of ER beds at Highpoint Health Sumner Station ER with Ascension Saint Thomas.
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Highpoint Health Wound Care – Sumner Celebrates Center of Distinction Award 6 Years in a Row
June 25, 2024Highpoint Health Wound Care – Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas has received the prestigious Center of Distinction award by Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. For the sixth year in a row, Highpoint Health Wound Care achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months and maintained a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92 percent.
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Highpoint Health First in Tennessee to Implant New Dissolvable Stent for People with Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia Below the Knee
June 06, 2024Highpoint Health – Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas announced it is the first hospital in Tennessee to successfully implant a first-of-its-kind dissolvable stent for people with chronic limb-threatening below-the-knee ischemia. Ischemia is a condition in which blood flow is restricted or reduced in a part of the body, a serious form of peripheral artery disease (PAD).
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Stroke Awareness Month: 3 Steps to Manage Your Stroke Risk
May 30, 2024May is National Stroke Awareness Month. We recognize this month each year because for many people, stroke awareness can be truly life-saving – someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds, and for these patients, timely treatment can mean the difference between successful recovery and long-term disability. By taking steps to prevent stroke, and knowing how to recognize a stroke when it occurs, you reduce the risk to you and your family.
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Highpoint Health Honored for Innovation
May 28, 2024Lifepoint's Innovation Award recognizes a deserving hospital system that has demonstrated leveraging innovation as a key ingredient of its success.
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Highpoint Health Senior Life Solutions – Trousdale Celebrates Mental Health Awareness Month and Encourages Everyone to Look Around and Look Within
May 20, 2024Join Highpoint Health Senior Life Solutions – Trousdale this May as we celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to spread awareness and help break down the stigma surrounding mental illness.
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Highpoint Health Senior Life Solutions – Trousdale and Riverview Selected as LEAD Training Site
May 07, 2024Highpoint Health Senior Life Solutions with Ascension Saint Thomas programs at Trousdale and Riverview were selected to be a LEAD training site by Psychiatric Medical Care, a behavioral health management company that has more than 250 hospital and health system partnerships across the country.
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Colon Cancer Awareness Month: Understanding Your Colonoscopy
March 14, 2024March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Even if your first colonoscopy is decades away, it’s important to know what to expect from this potentially lifesaving screening.
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Highpoint Health – Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas Performs the Region's First PE Thrombectomy
March 13, 2024Two interventional cardiologists collaborating on care performed the first PE thrombectomy in Sumner County. This procedure removes blood clots impacting a patient's ability to breathe. Being able to do this procedure is a crucial intervention in life-saving care.
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