History
The History of River Park Hospital
River Park Hospital, is a 125-licensed bed facility that is accredited by The Joint Commission. River Park Hospital serves over 115,000 residents in an eight-county region, which include: Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Sequatchie, Van Buren, Warren and White. The original hospital was built in 1970, but in October 1996, River Park completed a new facility that increased in size to 200,000 square feet on 14.2 acres. The new hospital was designed to accommodate the community’s needs as well as ever changing medical technologies. The doors opened on the new hospital on October 31, 1996.
River Park Hospital offers many of the same services that larger metropolitan area facilities provide. Some of the services include: Same Day Surgery, Lithotripsy, Laser Surgery, a Rehabilitation Unit, Sports Medicine, Life-Flight Access, Labor and Delivery Suites, Inpatient Dialysis, Cardiac Services, Neurology, and more. River Park Hospital leads the way in advanced diagnostic and treatment services with highly qualified radiologists and technologists providing MRI, Mammography, Ultrasound, CT Scan, and a Bone Densitometer Screening device. In 2007, River Park welcomed Middle Tennessee Surgical Care, a physician-developed, free-standing ambulatory surgery center to its family.