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Sports Medicine Experts Offer Advice To Help You Play It Safe This Summer
July 13, 2010 - Summer is the ideal time to have plenty of outdoor fun—but you need to be smart ...

MHP Part of a Top Ten Healthcare System for Quality and Efficiency; CHP Wins Honor for Second Year In A Row
July 7, 2010 -
Mercy Health Partners CEO David Jimenez announced that MHP’s parent company, Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), has ...

MHP Board Looks To Determine Market Value/Interest in Mercy West Campus
June 22, 2010 -
The Mercy Health Partners Board of Directors has authorized staff to consider the strategic impact on ...

Free Community Cancer Resource Center Opens at Mercy North
June 15, 2010 -
Mercy Health Partners and the American Cancer Society (ACS) will hold a ribbon cutting for the ...

Summer Seminars Focus on Importance of Planning Ahead for Difficult Medical Decisions
June 4, 2010 -
Mercy Health Partners, Knoxville-Knox County CAC Office On Aging, and the East Tennessee Area Agency on ...

Mercy Gives Notice on Scott County Hospital Lease
May 24, 2012 -
Mercy Health Partners announced today that it has given Scott County officials two years notice of ...

Mercy's Web site now offers the SLEEPaware risk assessment test
May 11, 2010 -
The Mercy Health Partners Web site, www.mercy.com, now has a simple, 5-minute online test that ...

Mercy and East Tennessee Heart Consultants Partner to Form Mercy Heart Institute
May 7, 2010 -
The area’s largest cardiology group,  East Tennessee Heart Consultants (ETHC), has joined with  Mercy Health Partners ...

Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s Celebrates Its 80th Birthday This Thursday
April 20, 2010 -
Sisters, physicians, administrators and associates at Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s will celebrate 80 years of ...

Mercy Announces Plans for New South Knoxville Diagnostic and Physician Center
April 12, 2010 -
Mercy Health Partners today announced plans to open a new physician, imaging and diagnostic center in ...

St. Mary's Jefferson Memorial Hospital Named To Top 100 Hospitals List
April 5, 2010 - Mercy Health Partners and St. Mary’s Jefferson Memorial Hospital (SMJMH) announced that Jefferson Memorial has again ...

Mercy Present New, High Tech Lab Coats to Metro Physicians on Doctor's Day
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In celebration of Doctor’s Day, Mercy Health Partners today is presenting physicians at Mercy Medical Center ...

Mercy Medical Center St. Mary's Opens Chest Pain Center
March 22, 2010 -
Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s has opened a new Chest Pain Center in the Emergency Department ...

Mercy HomeCare Service Earns Bonus From CMS
March 18, 2010 -
Mercy HomeCare Services earned more than a half million dollar bonus from the Centers for Medicare ...

Gynecologic Robotic Surgery Topic of Next Healthy In The City Seminar
March 12, 2010 - Mercy Health Partner’s next downtown women’s healthcare seminar will focus on advancements in minimally invasive and ...

LESS Is More In Robotic Surgery at Mercy Medical Center St. Mary's
Feb. 24, 2010 -
A Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s surgeon is the first in the Southeast to use just ...

Mercy Medical Center St. Mary's Named Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery and Knee/Hip Replacement
Feb. 22, 2010 - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee has designated Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s as a ...

St. Mary's Jefferson Memorial Hospital Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for Facility Expansion
Feb. 18, 2010 - Below-freezing temperatures and a dusting of snow on the ground didn’t dampen the excitement or deter ...

Mercy Heart Specialists Use Cutting-Edge Catheterization Procedure To Close Holes In Hearts
Feb. 8, 2010 -
Cardiologists at Mercy Medical Center West are repairing holes in the wall between the chambers of ...

Mercy Unveils New Names For Metro Area Hospitals
Feb. 4, 2010 -
Officials with Mercy Health Partners today unveiled the new name and signs for the Metro Knoxville ...

A Mercy Medical Team To Help in Relief Efforts In Haiti
Feb. 2, 2010 - Chaplain Dan Hix and several Sisters from Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s led a prayer of ...

Robotic Surgery Coming To Mercy Medical Center West
Jan. 18, 2010 -
Mercy Health Partners’ Metro Division COO Jeff Ashin announced today that Mercy Medical Center West will ...

New Surgery Center Open on Mercy Medical Center West Campus
January 12, 2010 - Mercy Surgery Center West is now open for a variety of outpatient procedures in the ambulatory ...

Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s Earns Robotic Epicenter Designation
Dec. 15, 2009 -
Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s is the only hospital in Tennessee to be named as an ...

Mercy Cancer Centers Sponsor Smoke Cessation Course Starting In January
Dec. 14, 2009 -
Mercy Cancer Centers are making it easier for people to make a 2010 New Year’s resolution ...

London Resigns From Mercy Health Partners
December 1, 2009 - Mercy Health Partners President and CEO Debra London has resigned her position, effective November 30, 2009. ...

Hot to Trot Thanksgiving Day Race Benefits Sister Martha's Food Pantry and Catholic Charities
November 19, 2009 - Hot to Trot races will take place on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, in Turkey Creek ...

Mercy Health Partners Works With Scholastic Book Clubs ClassroomsCare Program To Support Literacy
November 17, 2009 - Mercy Health Partners is proud to partner with Scholastic Inc. in Scholastic Book Clubs ClassroomsCare initiative ...

Mercy Cancer Centers Present Oncology on Canvas Art Exhibit at Mercy Medical Center North Campus
Nov. 16, 2009 - Lilly’s Oncology on Canvas, a free art exhibit honoring the physical and emotional journeys people face ...

St. Mary's Hospice House Celebrates 10 years of Service With Open House on Nov. 16
Nov. 12, 2009 - The Mercy Residential Hospice Program will celebrate 10 years of service to the community during an ...

Mercy Cancer Center's Diet and Cancer Series to Focus on Preventing Lung Cancer
Nov. 2, 2009 - The November program in the Diet and Cancer Series will help people learn to pump up ...

St. Mary's Home Health Services Scores Tops In Knoxville Area
Oct. 28, 2009 - Mercy HomeCare Services is the only agency in the Knoxville area to score at or better ...

National Expert on Improving the Community Response to Abuse Victims to Speak at the Annual Anita Gregg Memorial Luncheon
Oct. 27, 2009 - The Mercy Health Partners Foundation and the Community Coalition on Family Violence will host the annual ...

Mercy Physician First in the Knoxville Area to Implant New Wireless Pacemaker
Oct. 20, 2009 - A cardiologist with East Tennessee Heart Consultants is the first physician in the Knoxville area to ...

Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s Ranked Among The Top 5% in Nation for Overall Orthopedic Services
Oct. 13, 2009 - Mercy Medical Center St. Mary’s formerly St. Mary’s Medical Center,  ranked among the top 5% in ...

Learn How To Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer Through a Healthy Diet
Oct. 8, 2009 - Mercy Cancer Centers dietitian Teresa McCusker says adopting a healthier lifestyle can help to lower your ...

Mercy Marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Several Educational Programs
Oct. 2, 2009 - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Mercy Health Partners is hosting several educational programs ...

Sisters of Mercy Lead Mercy Month Celebrations
Oct. 1, 2009 - The Sisters of Mercy led the Mercy Health Partners celebration of Mercy Month at its 27 ...

HPV - What Adolescents and Young Adults Need To Know
Sept. 17, 2009 - Mercy Health Partners is hosting an educational program to answer questions about the human papillomavirus (HPV) ...

Your Plate and Your Prostate
Sept. 15, 2009 -
The second in Mercy Cancer Centers’ Cancer and Diet series will focus on reducing the risk ...

Christopher Nolte, M.D. Joins Mercy Sleep Centers
August 11, 2009 -
Christopher Nolte, M.D. has joined Mercy Sleep Centers.  A graduate of Vanderbilt University, ...

Mercy Provides Heart Surgery for Haitian Teen
Jan. 12, 2009 - A teenager from Haiti received surgery to repair a hole in her heart at Mercy Medical ...




Media Inquires

From the merger of two health systems, to the initiation of new services, to the delivery of one of the most powerful MRIs in the state, exciting things are happening at Mercy.

Mercy Public Relations provides media access to the newsmakers and opinion leaders at Baptist and St. Mary's hospitals and facilities. We will help connect you to the sources you need.

Someone from Public Relations is on-call 24-hours-a-day, 365 days a year for media requests. To reach the staff after business hours, dial our medical center information number at (865) 545-8000 and ask the operator to contact the on-call person. Be prepared to give the operator information concerning your request, which will be delivered to the on-call person.

For all media inquiries for St. Mary's facilities or Mercy Health Partners:
Craig Griffith
cgriffith@mercy.com
(865) 545-7565

For all media inquiries for Baptist facilities:
Gretchen Church
gchurch@mercy.com
(865) 549-4838

After 5 p.m. and weekends, call the operator at (865) 545-8000.
They will put you in touch with the on call person.

For St. Mary’s Jefferson Memorial Hospital:
Craig Griffith
cgriffith@mercy.com
(865) 545-7565

For St. Mary’s Medical Center of Campbell County:
Emily Noss
enoss@mercy.com
(423) 907-1447