Hospitals

Memorial North Shore Health Center

103 Cherokee Blvd
Chattanooga
(423) 756-1506

Memorial Health Care System is a not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to the healing ministry of the Church. Founded in 1952 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and strengthened as part of Catholic Health Initiatives, Memorial offers a continuum of care including preventative, primary and acute hospital care, as well as cardiac, cancer, orthopedic, imaging, and multitude of other services.

Memorial is a regional referral center of choice with more than 3,800 associates and more than 660 affiliated physicians providing health care throughout Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia.

Taking care of families in Chattanooga and beyond while striving to provide the best in physical and spiritual attention is vital to our mission.

Heart and Vascular Center

Advanced cardiac care to get you back to those you love.

Memorial's Heart and Vascular Center offers a team of cardiac specialists who have trained at some of the most renowned medical programs in the country. Memorial and The Chattanooga Heart Institute integrated services in early 2011. The 22 board-certified cardiologists at The Chattanooga Heart Institute have led the region's largest diagnostic, treatment, research and rehabilitation center dedicated solely to cardiovascular care for the past 33 years. Advanced heart care to get you back to the life you love…and the people you inspire by living it.

Four times the surgical expertise
For better patient outcomes, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology recommend that a facility meet or exceed a minimum volume of 200 cardiac procedures per year. Memorial performs more than 800. That's four times the national minimum. And we perform twice as many open heart procedures as any other area hospital.

Advanced Diagnosis and Interventions
Memorial and Memorial Hixson hospitals each provide imaging services that include echocardiography, stress echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography and nuclear cardiology. Memorial Hospital has five cardiac catheterization laboratories, two electrophysiology laboratories and one tilt room for specialized cardiac testing.

Accredited Emergency Care
Emergency Centers at Memorial and Memorial Hixson hospitals are each Accredited Chest Pain Centers. When a heart attack patient arrives, our Chest Pain Protocol is put into action to open their clogged arteries in the shortest “door to balloon” time possible. The national benchmark for treating heart attack patients is 90 minutes from the time they arrive. The heart specialists at Memorial beat the standard for opening clogged arteries and average 49 minutes. Time is essential for saving heart muscle. Patients who are experiencing symptoms of a heart attack should call 911 immediately.

Insurance Plans

Before you enroll in an insurance plan, please check with your insurer or employer to make sure Memorial Hospital and Memorial Hospital Hixson are included in the plan.

Memorial Health Care System participates in the following plans:

Aetna – PPO, POS, EPO
Alexian Brothers PACE
Alliant Health Plans
Amerigroup Community Care (Georgia only)
Black Lung
BlueAdvantage
BlueCare
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Network P
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Network S
CCN Network (part of First Health)
ChoiceCare Network (a Humana program)
CIGNA
Coventry
Definity (a United HealthCare program)
First Health Network
Georgia Better Health (Medicaid)
GEHA – will term 12/31/12
Golden Rule (a United HealthCare program)
Health One Alliance
Health Scope
HealthSprings (HMO Medicare Advantage program)
Humana, Inc. (PPO, HMO, Gold and Medicare Advantage programs)
Memorial Health Services
Multiplan
Olympus
PHCS
TRICARE (Champus)
United HealthCare of Tennessee
United HealthCare of the River Valley (commercial programs only)
United Mine Workers
WellCare of Georgia

Medical Education

Physician Articles
PSA Screening and Prostate Cancer Screening for Risk and Early Detection by Dr. Lee Jackson, robotic and prostate cancer surgeon with Memorial Robotics and Urologic Cancer

Tumor Conferences
Regularly scheduled tumor conferences bring together pathologists, oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, urologists, family practice specialists and other medical professionals to discuss all aspects of cancer treatment.

Tumor Conferences are held in the MaryEllen Locher Breast Center Conference Room on the fourth floor near the Oncology Unit at Memorial Hospital. Each physician attending the conference will receive CME credit.

Breast Tumor Conferences are held each Thursday at 7:00 a.m.
Thoracic Tumor Conferences are held on the first and third Friday of each month at 7:00 a.m.
Head and Neck Tumor Conferences are held on the first and third Friday of each month at 7:30 a.m.
Gastrointestinal Tumor Conferences are held on the second and fourth Friday of each month at 7:00 a.m.
Gastrourology Tumor Conferences are held on the second and fourth Friday of each month at 7:30 a.m.
Gynecologic and Didactic Tumor Conferences schedules vary.

For more information, call Cynthia at (423) 495-7765