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CLARKSVILLE, TN (August 25, 2025) – Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville has developed an exciting new initiative designed to empower our community to live longer, healthier lives. Enjoy the Ride: Navigating a Longer, Healthier Life is a FREE 12-day, longevity-focused email series launching on Sept. 15. According to the CDC, Americans’ average lifespan is longer than ever – 74.8 years for men and 80 for women. But Americans’ health span – how long a person is healthy and free of disease – is decreasing. Bab... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, August 15, 2025 – Dr. Lucas Teske and the team at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville have performed the first shoulder replacement surgery in Tennessee utilizing an augmented reality surgical application. Surgeons developed the new technology to perform the surgery because patients may experience a better fit and function, leading to a faster recovery and return to everyday activities. Using advanced 3D planning tools before the surgery, a real-time surgical instrument guidance sys... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, TN, July 22, 2025 - The Wound Care Center at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville has been awarded both the Center of Distinction award and the Clinical Excellence Award for continued excellence in wound healing. The Center of Distinction is awarded to wound care centers achieving outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months, including a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92 percent. This is the tenth consecutive year Tennova’s Wound Care Center has been named a Center of Dist... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, TN - Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Silver Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately leading to more lives saved and reduced disability. Get With The Guidelines - Stroke is an in-hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to these... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., June 25, 2025 - Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville has announced the appointment of pediatric neonatologist Dr. Diane M. Attardi, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), as the medical director for Tennova’s Level II neonatal intensive care unit and nursery, where more than 200 babies are cared for each year. Dr. Attardi has a long history of service to NICU babies as a neonatologist and NICU medical director throughout the Northeast. She is dedicated to promoting breast milk as t... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., June 16, 2025 – Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have a long-standing partnership to support the delivery of highly specialized, advanced levels of medicine, including labor and delivery, neonatology, oncology and cardiology, for Clarksville, Montgomery County and the surrounding region. “The partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center has elevated healthcare in our community for many years as we’ve worked together to grow and... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, TN (June 4, 2025) – In the coming days, Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville will submit to the Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency a request to change the location for the implementation of its approved Certificate of Need (CON) to construct a new, 12-bed hospital. The new site is a 10-acre property immediately adjacent to the current Tennova ER – Sango. Tennova has been actively pursuing this path well before Ascension and HCA/TriStar Health announced their intent to apply for CO... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, TN (May 13, 2025) – Tennova Medical Group welcomes Maximillian Martinez, M.D., to Tennova Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. An orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Martinez will join the Tennova Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine team at 1810 Madison Street, Suite B in Clarksville. Dr. Martinez received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He earned his master’s degree in biomedical science at Tufts University in Boston. Dr. Martinez completed his medic... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, TN (May 12, 2025) – Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville is pleased to collaborate with Mothers’ Milk Bank of Tennessee to open a Milk Drop Depot at Tennova’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The Milk Drop Depot will provide a convenient place for pre-screened and approved milk donors to donate their frozen milk. Donations received at Tennova will be transported to the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Tennessee facility in Murfreesboro. There the organization filters, mixes, bottles, pasteurizes and c... ... Read More

CLARKSVILLE, TN (May 6, 2025) – Tennova Medical Group welcomes Brett Simpson, M.D., to Tennova Neurosurgery - Clarksville. Dr. Simpson, a board-certified neurosurgeon, specializes in the treatment of conditions affecting the nervous system and spine. Dr. Simpson will serve his patients at 647 Dunlop Lane, Medical Office Building One, Suite 210 in Clarksville. Originally from a small city in southeast Michigan, Dr. Simpson received his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Wayne State University ... ... Read More