Saint Thomas to Adopt Ascension As Part Of Its Name

October 4, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

 Saint Thomas Health has announced it will add Ascension to its name as part of a national effort to unify Ascension care sites across the country, making it easier for patients to access the care they need and navigate their health regardless of their location. In moving toward a unified name, Saint Thomas Health will become Ascension Saint Thomas and adopt the Ascension logo.

By creating more consistent names for its facilities and services across the country, Ascension will better connect every aspect of care and innovation across its hospitals and other sites of care.

Saint Thomas Health has been part of Ascension since 1999. Ascension is the nation’s leading nonprofit health system, with 2,600 sites of care and 34,000 providers in 21 states and Washington, D.C.

“The Ascension Saint Thomas brand is an expression and extension of our more than 120-year history serving Middle Tennessee, with a Mission to provide compassionate, personalized care for all, especially those most vulnerable,” said Tim Adams, President and CEO of Saint Thomas Health. “By connecting our Saint Thomas legacy of quality, faith-based care to our identity as Ascension, we will establish a national reputation that supports our goals of expanding access to care, bringing care closer to home, growing innovation within our specialized services and improving patient outcomes.”

Patients will continue to receive personalized care from the doctors they know and trust, and those physicians are connected to thousands of experts and specialists across the country within Ascension’s national network.

Innovations within the Ascension network will enable individuals to connect with their caregivers when, where and how they need it, as Ascension Saint Thomas will continue to develop ways to improve communication and convenient access to care.

“The patients and families we serve have high expectations for excellent, personalized care delivered easily and conveniently. By creating consistent names across Ascension facilities and services nationwide, we’re making it easier for patients to access the care they need and expanding our efforts to deliver high-quality, affordable care for everyone with special attention to those most in need,” said Nick Ragone, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Ascension.

Saint Thomas Health joins Ascension systems in three other states in beginning the move to a unified name, and implementation will begin within the next year.  Last October, Ascension’s sites of care in Kansas, Texas, Alabama, Florida and New York adopted the Ascension name.

Saint Thomas operates four hospitals that serve the Upper Cumberland area: Saint Thomas Highlands Hospital in Sparta, Saint Thomas Riverpark Hospital in McMinnville, Saint Thomas Stones River Hospital in Woodbury and Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital in Smithville.

ABOUT SAINT THOMAS HEALTH

In Tennessee, Ascension’s Saint Thomas Health operates nine hospitals in addition to a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures, medical practices, clinics and rehabilitation facilities that cover a 68-county area and employ more than 8,000 associates. Across the state, Saint Thomas Health provided more than $127 million in community benefit and care of persons living in poverty in fiscal year 2018. Serving Tennessee for 15 years, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system, operating more than 2,600 sites of care – including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 21 states and the District of Columbia. Visit www.sthealth.com.

October 4, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters have a new leader.

Will Graham has taken over first place for picking winners after the fifth week of the college football season.

Graham now has the best overall record at 48-26 five weeks into the season after posting the best record of the week among all forecasters at 13-2 followed by Grant James of the James Gang and Dewain Hendrixson who each went 11-4 for the week. Last week’s guest Ronnie Goodwin had a record of 10-5. Darrell Gill, Ricky Atnip, Chad Kirby, and John Pryor each went 9-6 and Scott Brown finished 8-7 for the week.

Following Will Graham in first place at 48-26 are Scott Brown, last week’s leader at 47-27, Chad Kirby and Dewain Hendrixson, each at 46-28, Darrell Gill 45-29, the guests (Larry Green, Darvin Gill, Isaac Gray, Luke Willoughby, and Ronnie Goodwin), 45-29, while Grant James of the James Gang, Ricky Atnip, and John Pryor are tied at 44-30.

Only one Forecaster, Dewain Hendrixson hit his underdog pick last week. Hendrixson got 7 points with Florida’s win over Mississippi State 13-6.

In addition to having the best overall record, Will Graham is also the underdog points leader with 34 followed by Ricky Atnip with 15, Darrell Gill and Scott Brown each with 14, John Pryor 11.5, Dewain Hendrixson 11, the James Gang 10, and Chad Kirby 5, The guests have no points.

Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:

MTSU at Marshall, Notre Dame at Virginia Tech, Texas at Oklahoma, Iowa at Minnesota, Boston College at N.C. State, California at Arizona, Kansas State at Baylor, Arizona State at Colorado, UAB at Louisiana Tech, Utah State at BYU, Missouri at South Carolina, LSU at Florida, Kentucky at Texas A&M, Auburn at Mississippi State, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at Buffalo.

Today’s special guest is TWRA Officer Tony Cross.

Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com.

The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, Liberty State Bank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, and DeKalb County Ace Hardware.

October 4, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

STEM challenges are being introduced to students as young as elementary school age to help teach them about science, technology, engineering and math, all while building their brains and making connections through problem solving.

Fourth grade students in the Lottery Education for Afterschool Program (LEAPS) at Northside Elementary this week have had fun with aerospace education through STEM activities.

Captain Steven Glover of Cookeville, member of the Civil Air Patrol, Wednesday showed students the proper way to make paper gliders and roto motors. He also brought along a Celestron telescope for the kids to look through.

“The idea of aerospace education starts at this grade level and younger and we are doing hands on activities related to aerospace education. Today we have finished up a project that was started Monday making a glider properly and how we can make it change to fly differently,” said Captain Glover.

“We have also made a roto motor by using scissors, tape, and paper clips to convert a glider making it go in a rotary fashion, sort of like seeds that fall in a rotary fashion from trees in the spring or fall. This idea of hands on activities related to science, technology, education, and math and aerospace education is part of what the Civil Air Patrol does,” he said.

Melissa Roysdon, Northside Elementary LEAPS teacher, said students are also working on a project in conjunction with the upcoming International Fair.

“Students are working on turning their room into an International Space Station for this year’s International Fair in November. Other students will get to come in and look at the experiments these children have conducted through the After School Program. They will also see and hear things about the 16 different nations that take part in the actual International Space Station and how it relates to cultures around the world,” she said.

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