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 PartyWanda Johnson has experienced more than most when it comes to cancer. Read More
Save Your Ta Tas, Attend Our Girls Night Out Mammogram PartyMammograms are a girl’s breast friend. They save lives, but some women risk their health because “mammograms are not fun.” Not any more.
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Size 4 Suits Concord Woman - CWMC Was Key to Weight LossJoan 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.
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Parkwest Green Efforts Garners Great ResultsParkwest 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 AgreementCovenant 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.
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Parkwest Medical Center is Top 100 Heart HospitalParkwest 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.
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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.
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Battling Chronic Kidney Disease William Shunk says the right physicians and support are key because CKD is a silent killer.
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What a Difference a Year MakesYou should see Shalee Benson of Newport now. A year after bariatric weight loss surgery, she is nearly 200 pounds lighter.
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Fifth Annual Doc Rock Event February 26Looking for something to do? Then come out for a rockin’ good time at “Doc Rock for Health."
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What You Don’t Know About Blood Pressure Can Kill YouHypertension, 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.
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Leukemia Leads Nurse to Parkwest as Patient First, Then EmployeeIt 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.
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Could It Be My Gallbladder? Parkwest Surgeon Speaks OutGallbladder 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.”
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Physician Personally Prefers ParkwestWhen 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.
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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 CancerDebby 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.
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Parkwest Nurse Turns Abusive Past into Catalyst for Future SuccessTen 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.
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Parkwest Blood Drive to benefit Medic, Second Harvest Food bankGive 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.
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