Active, healthy and physically fit, Michaela Martin never expected a life-threatening health crisis. In March 2025, everything changed when she experienced a sudden intestinal blockage. But with Covenant Health’s Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville, TN, and Premier...
News from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Clears Cancers More Completely – Preserves Healthy Breast Tissue Covenant Health Fort Sanders Regional in Knoxville recently became the first hospital in Tennessee to use a new technology that can improve breast...
One evening in May 2023, west Knoxville resident Kathy Parlon experienced excruciating abdominal pain. “I have celiac disease, so until I was doubled over in pain, any symptoms I had were kind of like I ate something that disagreed with me — but worse,” she recalls....
Premier Surgical physicians, staff and Covenant Health officials celebrate the re-opening of the expanded Premier Surgery Center in Knoxville. The facility features three operating suites, a new family waiting room and patient check-in office, a new sterile processing...
It was small. Tiny really – about the size of a pencil eraser. But it itched…and itched…and itched. So Vicki Heidle did what comes naturally – she scratched it. In doing so, she set in motion a chain of events that not only gave the 67-year-old Clinton woman the scare...
