Quality of Life
Rutherford County Healthcare
More than 300 physicians and 100 dentists practice in Rutherford County, with highly qualified general practitioners and specialists in virtually every area of health care available.
Middle Tennessee Medical Center (MTMC), in Murfreesboro, has more than 288 beds and is affiliated with Baptist and Saint Thomas Hospitals in Nashville.
MTMC is the largest, most comprehensive hospital in the corridor bridging Nashville and Chattanooga. The hospital offers a wide array of specialized services and continues to grow, recently opening a comprehensive cancer center and new ambulatory surgery and diagnostic center.
In addition to general medical and surgical care, MTMC offers:
- Neonatal intensive care
- Pediatric care
- Intensive and coronary care units
- Emergency care
- Ophthalmic care
- Orthopedics
- Podiatric care
- Urology
- Neurosurgery
The medical staff of more than 200 physicians offers more than 30 medical specialties, ranging from obstetrics to endocrinology. The medical center delivers more than 2,500 babies annually.
StoneCrest Medical Center, located in Smyrna, is a 100-bed facility with more than 130 physicians on staff.
Services include:
- Emergency care
- General surgery
- Cardiology
- Obstetrics
- Intensive care
- Diagnostic services
- Cancer care
This state-of-the-art hospital also features room service for patients and a heliport & EMS facility.
The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at StoneCrest provides a full range of services for preventing, diagnosing and treating cancer. The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center is the nation's largest community-based cancer treatment and research program, providing comprehensive services through a network of facilities and physicians to meet the medical needs of individuals undergoing cancer treatment.
StoneCrest Medical Center will open an $8.6 million expansion project in spring 2007. The project will add two finished operating rooms, six additional recovery rooms and two shelled operating rooms.
The Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & Surgicenter (MMC) employs 60 physicians with specialists in:
- Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- OB/GYN
- Ophthalmology
- General/Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
- Urology
- Gastroenterology
- Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery
- Endocrinology
- Neurology
- Radiology
- Otolaryngology
The Clinic Research Department sees more than 21,000 patients monthly and averages more than 250 new patients weekly. The Surgicenter performs more than 400 surgical cases per month.
The Alvin C. York Veterans Administration Campus in Murfreesboro is a regional facility with 510 hospital beds and 166 nursing home beds. The medical facility provides primary care and subspecialty medical, surgical, and psychiatric services to veterans.
The campus provides long-term rehabilitation and nursing home care, and serves as a VISN 9 resource for the long-term inpatient care of psychiatric patients. The medical center has a well-established primary care program and provides subspecialty care in:
- Dermatology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology/oncology
- Infectious diseases
- Neurology
- Pulmonology
- Nephrology
- Rheumatology
- Sleep evaluation
