Rose Announces Local Office Hours

October 7, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

The staff of Congressman John Rose (TN-6) will be in DeKalb County on Tuesday, October 15^th to meet with local citizens who need assistance with federal services.

“I am thrilled to have a talented district staff serving the good folks of Tennessee’s Sixth District. We are focused on providing top-notch constituent services for all 19 counties,” said Rose. “Knowing that at times it may be difficult to travel to one of our two district offices, I have directed my district staff to periodically set up office hours in other locations throughout our 19 county-district. This will allow everyone in the Sixth District to have face-to-face access to my district staff and the services we provide.”

“The next opportunity for constituents to take advantage of these remote office hours will be in Smithville,” Rose announced. “My staff will be meeting with constituents at the DeKalb County Board of Education on Tuesday, October 15^th from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM Central Time. Constituents who do not need a face-to-face meeting may call the Cookeville office to discuss any questions at 931-854-9430.”

Congressman John Rose represents Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District and resides in Cookeville with his wife, Chelsea, and their son, Guy. The Sixth District includes Cannon, Clay, Coffee, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, White, and Wilson counties as well as portions of Cheatham and Van Buren counties.

October 7, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

A liaison with the Vehicle Services Division of the Tennessee Department of Revenue paid a call on the DeKalb County Clerk’s Office last week.

Tanner Poss stopped by to greet County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss and the staff and to learn firsthand what the department can do to assist the local office in providing better service to the people.

“I am a state liaison with the county clerk’s offices mainly for the eastern part of the state. I listen to concerns from the different counties on what they deal with on a day to day basis. We don’t deal with customers everyday on the state level like the county clerks do so we want to get a sense of what the main issues are at the local level and what we can do to best help them,” said Poss.

County Clerk Poss said although he is in regular contact with the state department on matters related to his office, this is his first visit from a state liaison since he took office in 2014.

“Tanner and others at the state are always available to assist us with concerns that our office or the people of our community may have related to motor vehicle transactions and we appreciate their help,” said County Clerk Poss.

“We’re in contact with the county clerks every day. We have a good support team who works with them but my main job is to listen to any kind of concerns they have been having and bring them back to my superiors. Our goal is to make the state and county relationship stronger,” added Tanner Poss.

Although Tanner does not reside in DeKalb County, he and County Clerk Poss recently discovered that they are distantly related. Coincidentally, Tanner shares the same name as Jimmy’s youngest son.

“I was a hockey player in high school and college and I was looking at my stats on line one day and noticed the name Tanner Poss from DeKalb County who played basketball. I wondered if we were somehow related so I asked my grandfather Harry and he said “yes”.

October 6, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital is upgrading and expanding services thanks to investments by Ascension, the parent organization of Saint Thomas Health.

According to Brad Mullinax, Chief Administrative Officer of Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital the improvements include a new CT scanner, pharmacy renovations, and cardiac rehab sevices among others.

“Ascension has really invested back into our hospital. We have some new renovations going on. We have a new CT scanner, a GE optima 540 that will bring some advanced technology as far as CT imaging back to the hospital. Our old machine was about 15 years old and was getting less reliable and efficient. That new CT scanner is now on line,” said Mullinax.

“Our pharmacy is also under renovation here to make us more compliant with new standards coming out from the Joint Commission next year. We’re projecting that  renovation to be finished up by the first of November,” he continued.

“After the first of the year we have a new service line coming to DeKalb in which we will be offering phase II and phase III cardiac rehab services. Any patients who have been at Saint Thomas West, Mid Town or Rutherford for cardiac procedures like stints or bypass surgery will no longer have to travel to another county to get their cardiac rehab done. That is a pretty big investment of about $100,000 that Ascension has made to make that service available and we are happy to be adding it at Saint Thomas DeKalb,” added Mullinax.

“We have more new equipment coming our way soon for pulmonary function testing and new IV pumps that will be more focused on safety and quality for the patients to help prevent any kind of medication errors”.

“Middle Tennessee Emergency Physicians has also taken over our emergency room services. They have been in the Rutherford and Mid Town West area for about 25 years and they are here now providing 24/7 care”.

“We’re excited about these investments Ascension has made into our hospital to better serve the people in our community,” said Mullinax.

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