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Welcome to Parkwest Medical Center

Parkwest is West Knoxville's premier medical facility and a Top Heart Hospital. In addition to providing the area's leading cardiac services, Parkwest has a nationally recognized emergency department and offers award-winning care in orthopedics, neurosurgery, obstetrics and bariatrics. 

Parkwest Medical Center
9352 Park West Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37923
(865) 373-1000
Rick Lassiter, President

 

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    Encourage Your Friends to Have a Girls Night Out!

    Not only is the Parkwest Comprehensive Breast Center Girl’s Night Out a perfect opportunity to get together with your friends or loved one for drinks and desserts, but it also helps you check an annual mammogram off your list. Read More

    Breast Cancer Survivor Encourages You to Attend a Parkwest Mammogram Party

    Wanda Johnson has experienced more than most when it comes to cancer. Read More

    Save Your Ta Tas, Attend Our Girls Night Out Mammogram Party

    Mammograms are a girl’s breast friend. They save lives, but some women risk their health because “mammograms are not fun.” Not any more. Read More

    Size 4 Suits Concord Woman - CWMC Was Key to Weight Loss

    Joan Collins has lost 40 pounds with the Covenant Weight Management Center and says that the most important factor to losing weight is believing that you can do it... Read More

    "I Just Know I've Saved My Life."

    Lenoir City woman credits bariatric surgery at Parkwest Medical Center for giving her joy back. Read More

    Parkwest Green Efforts Garners Great Results

    Parkwest Medical Center is celebrating its first year of making sure its environment is also Treated Well. Well Treated.
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    Covenant Health and Morristown-Hamblen Boards Approve Definitive Merger Agreement

    Covenant Health and Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System (MHHS) have announced that the two organizations have signed a definitive agreement to merge. The agreement was approved by the Covenant Health board at its April 5 meeting, and the MHHS board at its meeting on March 19. Read More

    Parkwest Medical Center is Top 100 Heart Hospital

    Parkwest Medical Center is the area’s only hospital to be recognized as a Top 100 Heart Hospital eight out of the last ten years.
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    Faith Sustains Young Mom During 'Storm' of Breast Cancer

    “Breast Cancer doesn’t care how old you are or when you can get mammograms,” said Julie Lewen who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the
    age of 33. Read More

    Parkwest OBGYN: ‘Don’t Skip Annual Exams’

    “So much goes into an annual gynecologic exam,” says Parkwest OBGYN Kimberly Roberts, MD who reports many women may not be getting the level of care they need. Read More

    Battling Chronic Kidney Disease

    William Shunk says the right physicians and support are key because CKD is a silent killer. Read More

    What a Difference a Year Makes

    You should see Shalee Benson of Newport now. A year after bariatric weight loss surgery, she is nearly 200 pounds lighter. Read More

    Fifth Annual Doc Rock Event February 26

    Looking for something to do? Then come out for a rockin’ good time at “Doc Rock for Health." Read More

    What You Don’t Know About Blood Pressure Can Kill You

    Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a serious condition that can lead to stroke, heart disease, kidney failure and other problems. Not only is it serious, it can be symptomless. Read More

    Leukemia Leads Nurse to Parkwest as Patient First, Then Employee

    It was a fluke that Debby Brenneman was at Parkwest on a February day three years ago. A Covenant Health employee since 1978 she had worked as a nurse at Fort Sanders Regional and with Covenant Home Health before transferring to Covenant’s Information Technology Department. Read More

    Could It Be My Gallbladder? Parkwest Surgeon Speaks Out

    Gallbladder attacks can be very painful as well as very scary,” said Dr. K. Robert Williams, surgeon at Parkwest Medical Center. “Typically, attacks last from one to four hours, and during this time, the symptoms that a patient experiences can vary greatly. Pain may be sharp, excruciating or dull.” Read More

    Physician Personally Prefers Parkwest

    When Parkwest physician, Dr. Rosalind Cadigan decided to have surgical weight loss surgery, she didn't have far to go. She chose Parkwest for her own life-changing surgery. Read More

    First Single-Site Gastric Band Surgery in Knoxville Performed at Parkwest

    Dr. K Robert Williams of the New Life Center for Bariatric Surgery, a division of Premier Surgical Associates, is the first Knoxville-area surgeon to perform single-site laparoscopic (SSL) surgery for gastric banding at Parkwest Medical Center. This minimally invasive procedure helps bariatric patients recover more quickly from weight loss surgery.
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    Parkwest Wants to Improve the Quality of Your Sleep


    There are nearly 100 types of sleep disorders that impair one’s ability to get a good night’s rest. When the body does not rest well, it taxes other systems in the body which hinders your overall wellbeing, mood and productivity.  Find out how you can benefit from a sleep study...

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    Daughters Lose Mother to Breast Cancer

    Debby Calkins encouraged her two teenage daughters “to know yourself and your body” before she passed away from breast cancer at the age of 47.

    When her daughters Anne, now 21, and Audrey, 24, heard that a recent study suggested women postpone mammograms till the age of 50 and have the scan every other year and not annually, it shocked them. Read More

    Parkwest Nurse Turns Abusive Past into Catalyst for Future Success

    Ten years ago, Michelle Dennis and her daughter headed south with only a full tank of gas and $50. The decision to leave Toledo was one based on instinct. Dennis knew her husband was going to be released from prison in a matter of days and she feared for her daughter’s life as well as her own. Read More

    Parkwest Blood Drive to benefit Medic, Second Harvest Food bank

    Give the gift of life. Donate blood with Medic at Parkwest Medical Center on Tuesday, Jan. 19 from 6 a.m. till 4 p.m. in the Boulevard Bistro.
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    Parkwest Installs Southeast’s First BrainSUITE®

    Parkwest Medical Center is the first hospital in the southeast to install a fully integrated BrainSUITE® with Digital Lightbox© technology. Patients no longer have to travel hundreds of miles to receive the level of brain, spine and ear, nose, and throat surgical care this newest equipment provides. Read More

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