Independent Radiology Associates

Dyersburg Regional Medical Center is a Community Health Systems, 225-bed facility offering extensive diagnostic and therapeutic services.

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Baptist Memorial Hospital - Lauderdale
Located in Ripley, Tennessee

An hour's drive north of Memphis, in Ripley, Tenn., this 70-bed hospital opened in 1983, replacing Lauderdale County Hospital. By 1989, a physicians' office building and a helicopter landing pad had been added, and medical care was expanding to the surrounding area through outpatient clinics. In 1992, an alcohol and drug unit opened in one of the hospital's two wings.
Like the Baptist network's other hospitals, Baptist Memorial Hospital Lauderdale is actively involved in community health and wellness programs. Area residents benefit from screenings for high cholesterol, training in first aid and CPR, smoking cessation classes and breast cancer awareness promotions.

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Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City

Baptist Memorial Hospital Union City, formerly Obion County General Hospital, became part of the Baptist network in 1982. The 173-bed facility is located in the northwest corner of Tennessee, just south of the Kentucky border.
A new radiation oncology department was constructed in 1989, and the 20-bed Behavioral Medicine Unit -- offering drug treatment and psychiatric programs not often found in rural facilities -- was renovated and modernized. In the same year, the hospital acquired a new CAT scanner.
In 1990, the hospital's 14-bed critical care unit received computerized monitoring equipment to better provide vital readings such as heart rate, blood oxygen level, rate of respiration and blood pressure. Soon afterward, arrival of a new ultrasound unit enabled the Radiology Department to perform duplex carotid exams, a new service, and the hospital laboratory received an analyzer to provide physicians with faster, more precise results from blood tests.
By 1993, two additional pieces of advanced equipment had further updated care for patients: a single-photon emission computed tomography ("SPECT") camera for diagnostic imaging; and a simulator which readies local cancer patients for radiation therapy, enabling them to eliminate drives of an hour or two to other hospitals to prepare for treatment.
In 1995, construction was completed on a new three-story patient tower, with 85,000 square feet -- tripling the size of the Emergency Department. Upcoming projects include a 16-bed, adolescent alcohol and drug unit, an in-house magnetic resonance imaging unit and a heart catheterization laboratory.

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