Inpatient Care Achieves Critical Access Designation
In February 2005, Cheatham County residents received county inpatient hospital care for the first time in five years. Centennial Medical Center at Ashland City became the fifth of Tennessee's small hospitals to achieve designation as a Critical Access Hospital (CAH).
CAH is a federal program designed to ensure rural populations have access to local hospital care. Under CAH, Centennial Medical Center at Ashland City maintains 8 inpatient beds to treat patients will non-life threatening illnesses.
In addition to this level of service, the hospital also offers round-the-clock emergency room services, basic labs and an emergency blood bank. Additionally, the facility provides radiology, endoscopy, fluoroscopy, CT scanning, ultrasound, mammography/imaging services and outpatient surgical services.
Centennial Medical Center is a 649-bed tertiary facility located in the heart of Nashville, TN and is recognized as one of the country’s 100 Top Hospitals in cardiovascular medicine, stroke service, orthopaedics, and breast cancer management.
Parthenon Pavilion is the oldest and largest full-service 132-bed psychiatric facility in Middle Tennessee providing inpatient mental health services for adults and geriatric patients as well as community-based mental health programs.
The Women’s Hospital at Centennial is Tennessee’s only stand-alone women’s hospital and neo-natal intensive care unit delivering 2,500 babies annually and is recognized nationally in breast cancer management in addition to providing the area’s only total digital mammography program.
The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center is a service-line offered through the TriStar Family of Hospitals that is designed to meet the needs of individuals undergoing cancer treatment, providing the most extensive drug, radiation and surgical services in the Southeast.
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