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LeConte Medical Center Receives a “B” for Outstanding Patient Safety

LeConte Medical Center is Working Hard to Improve Patient Safety LeConte Medical Center is proud to announce the hospital has received a “B” grade from the Leapfrog Group, awarded in spring 2019 for their commitment to exceptional patient safety and meeting the highest quality and safety standards. Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade rates how well hospitals […]

LeConte Medical Center Honors Fourth DAISY Award Recipient

LeConte Medical Center is Proud to Announce our Fourth Recipient of the DAISY Award.   Rosa Charles, NP has earned The DAISY Award for her hard work and commitment to taking excellent care of her patients on our labor and delivery floor. The DAISY Foundation was formed in November, 1999 by the family of J. Patrick […]

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 […]