A year ago this week LeConte Medical Center was announced as the new name for the new medical center being constructed on Middle Creek Road in Sevierville. Being built as a replacement facility for Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center, the campus will include the hospital, the Dolly Parton Center for Women’s Services, the Dr. Robert F. Thomas Professional Building, and Thompson Cancer Survival Center – Sevier.
At the naming announcement event on August 12, 2008, guests were invited to sign steel beams that would later be placed inside the new hospital, leaving their mark on the future of healthcare in Sevier County. In the following months, the community was invited to sign the beams at various events and in the hospital cafeteria. This week those beams have been placed in the patient discharge exit area of LeConte Medical Center. Although the beams will be covered, those who signed the beams have left their mark on the project!
Construction for the new campus continues to progress on schedule. Some physicians will begin to occupy their new office spaces in the Professional Building by later in the fall, with the Medical Center scheduled to open in mid-February 2010.
Radiation Oncology services will open at the new Thompson Cancer Survival Center Sevier facility on Dec. 1, 2009. Mobile PET/CT imaging services will also be provided at this new location beginning in December. Medical Oncology and Infusion services, currently provided in Sevier County, will move to the new facility and open for patient care on March 15, 2010.
Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center is a 79-bed acute care hospital and a 54-bed nursing home that has been serving the healthcare needs of Sevier County residents and visitors since 1965. A member of Covenant Health, Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center provides the right care, right here.
