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LeConte Medical Center Honors Fourth DAISY Award Recipient

LeConte Medical Center is Proud to Announce our Fourth Recipient of the DAISY Award.   Rosa Charles has earned the DAISY award for her hard work and commitment to taking excellent care of her patients on our labor and delivery floor.  DAISY an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System, The DAISY Foundation was formed in […]

LeConte Medical Center Welcomes Junior Volunteers

Our Junior Volunteer Program is underway.   Our junior volunteers will have the opportunity to work in a variety of areas in the hospital, Fort Sanders Nursing Home and Thompson Cancer Center. Teens will have the chance to meet healthcare professionals, learn about various healthcare careers, participate in educational sessions and tours as well as […]

LeConte Welcomes New Lab Manager

We are pleased to welcome Amanda Sutton, MLS(ASCP) as our new Laboratory Manager. Amanda will be working to run our laboratories safely and efficiently. She has a bachelor’s degree from Lincoln Memorial University. Sutton was a laboratory technician, medical technician and point of care technical specialist at Methodist Medical Center for 10 years before joining us […]

Sweet-Tasting, Foot-Tapping Fun!

Sweets and Beats Coming Soon Join the Dr. Robert F. Thomas Foundation at The Island in Pigeon Forge for “Sweets and Beats,” a dessert and music festival featuring sweet treats, local flavors and live music on Saturday May 11, from 5-8 p.m. The event invites local restaurateurs to bring their best desserts for visitors to […]

Celebrating Laboratory Professionals Week

  April 21-27 is the annual ASCP Medical Laboratory Professionals Week.       For those of you unfamiliar, ASCP is the American Society for Clinical Pathology and it is the licensing  body which holds lab personal to rigorous  standards. Laboratory science is constantly changing and  improving and as it does maintaining an ASCP certification requires […]

LeConte Medical Center’s Oldest Volunteer

Meet David Barber, LeConte Medical Center’s oldest active volunteer. He will proudly tell you that he is 97 years old. He is still living life to the fullest by actively volunteering at LeConte Medical Center four days a week. He reports that he has not missed more than a week total during his nine years […]