Mountain States and Wellmont Offer Quality Care
Published Feb 23, 2009
Dennis L. Vonderfecht presides over the 14-hospital network of Mountain States Health Alliance.
Thanks to two respected health networks, Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System, the Northeast Tennessee Valley benefits from high-quality medical facilities across the region.
Founded in 1998 when Johnson City Medical Center purchased six other medical facilities, Mountain States today has 14 hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia, with the 443-bed JCMC as its centerpiece.
Calling medical treatment for children “the heart of health care,” Dennis Vonderfecht, Mountain States president and chief executive officer, says the alliance’s $36 million Niswonger Children’s Hospital should open in March 2009 on the JCMC campus. A testament to the region’s support, the construction project received $20 million in private donations.
At Wellmont Health System, which has 14 hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia, the new emergency department at Bristol Regional Medical Center is “absolutely state of the art,” says Brad Lifford, media relations coordinator.
Lifford says emergency-patient volumes have grown “exponentially,” prompting the $13 million construction and renovation project that was finished in June 2008.
Under way at Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport is Project Platinum, a $100 million expansion and overhaul that includes a new patient tower, emergency and same-day surgery expansions, additional intensive-care beds, and technology upgrades.
Story by Sharon H. Fitzgerald
Photo by Ian Curcio
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