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COLUMBIA - Though Jennifer Haddock and Sandy Melton met just two weeks ago, Haddock plans to save Melton’s life Tuesday.
At Vanderbilt Medical Center, Haddock will donate her left kidney to Melton, who was diagnosed with chronic renal failure in 2004 after a routine checkup showed high levels of creatinene in her blood. Creatinene is the [...]

COLUMBIA - A Columbia woman suffered head injuries when she lost control of her car on Pickens Lane during a morning commute.
Authorities said Amy Sharpton was driving east on Pickens Lane near Lawrence Street Friday morning when she lost control of her car, swerved into a ditch, struck a rocky embankment and collided with another [...]

COLUMBIA - The Maury Regional Healthcare Foundation’s second annual art show and sale will be held Aug. 8-9 at the Memorial Building in Columbia.
Thirty six local and regional artists will be participating this year. In addition to paintings, this year’s show will include pottery, wood turned items, stained glass and photography.
Read more at Columbia Daily [...]

Columbia, Tenn. - Maury Regional Hospital today announced that it has joined a comprehensive, national program that will improve the quality and safety of patient care while safely reducing health care costs.
“QUEST: High Performing Hospital. s” is a three-year, collaborative program among more than 100 leading hospitals through which Maury Regional Hospital will report [...]

SPRING HILL — Williamson Medical Center is formally requesting a citizen’s group stop what it calls a “deceptive and defamatory” ad campaign in support of a hospital in the city.
The attorney for the hospital, Charles E. Young, wrote the attorney for Citizens for Spring Hill Hospital, Huntly Gordon, stating the corporation believes recent advertisements created [...]

I found Spring Hill Alderman Jonathan Duda’s (May 21) letter to the editor disturbing. It is disheartening to have Maury Regional Hospital criticized for exercising its rights as set forth under the laws of Tennessee.
To do so is a criticism of our legislative process of checks and balances put into place to serve the best [...]

We recently received a memo from Robert Otwell to his hospital staff. We decided to publish it, it is not incriminating, it is simply a clarification of facts by him to his staff, and is as follows:
As the HCA/Spring Hill Hospital certificate of need (CON) process continues to unfold, there have unfortunately been some [...]

The Board of Trustees for Maury Regional Hospital has approved further appeal of Spring Hill Hospital.
At the beginning of their opposition to SHH, MRH said that SHH was simply not needed and would irrevocably harm MRH. When the state found that a hospital will be needed in Spring Hill and that the negative effect [...]

COLUMBIA, Tenn.— The Maury Regional Hospital (MRH) Board of Trustees last night unanimously approved a plan to join Williamson Medical Center (WMC) in Davidson County Chancery Court to seek review of a final decision by the Health Services and Development Agency (HSDA) to grant HCA approval to build a hospital in Spring Hill.
“The board carefully [...]

SPRING HILL, Tenn.— Brian D. Jackson, DPM, a specialist in podiatry, has joined the growing number of physicians at the Spring Hill Specialty Clinic.
Dr. Jackson has practiced podiatric medicine for 14 years. Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPMs) strive to improve the overall health of their patients by focusing on preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions associated [...]

PRESS-RELEASE
COLUMBIA, Tenn.—Maury Regional Hospital (MRH) will present two cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) programs on Saturday, May 17 in the hospital’s Auxiliary Conference Room. The first class will be held from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.; and the second class from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jackie Miles, clinical educator at MRH, will lead the program.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation [...]