Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Advancing Care for Montgomery County
6/16/2025
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 enhance local medical resources,” said Drew Emery, Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville CEO. “Patients can access advanced care close to home through the clinical expertise of VUMC’s specialty providers and the resources of a leading academic medical center, who share our commitment to delivering quality, compassionate care.”
Care for Moms and Babies
With more than 1,800 mothers choosing to deliver at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville, the two organizations delivered more than 80% of the infants born to the county’s mothers.
Expectant women benefit from around-the-clock, enhanced medical care during their labor and delivery through an OB-GYN hospitalist program staffed by VUMC’s board-certified obstetrician/gynecologists working alongside Tennova’s physicians and nursing team, to provide high quality care until the patient’s obstetrician arrives. Clinicians from Vanderbilt have delivered care for the Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville neonatal intensive care unit since at least 1996.
The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is the manager of Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville’s 12-bed Level 2B newborn intensive care unit, and one of its physicians serves as the medical director of the NICU. Neonatal physicians and neonatal nurse practitioners are provided by Monroe Carell to deliver care for pre-term babies born at 32 weeks gestation or greater.
The clinical collaboration has earned Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville recognition as a Birthing-Friendly Hospital by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "Birthing-Friendly" is a CMS national designation recognizing high-quality maternity care. The designation identifies hospitals and health systems that participate in perinatal quality improvement collaborative programs and that implement evidence-based care to improve maternal health.
Cancer Care
Since December 2004, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville has offered the community local access to cancer care. Vanderbilt Health Services is the managing partner of the joint venture radiation oncology center. The center is staffed by two experienced VUMC radiation oncologists and a multidisciplinary team, a third Vanderbilt-trained radiation oncologist will be joining the practice in the fall. The center has two linear accelerators for external beam radiation treatments with image-guidance capabilities. Last year, more than 500 patients received treatment at the facility. Since its opening, the facility has rendered care to more than 10,000 patients in Montgomery and surrounding counties.
Cardiovascular Services
Earlier this year, Vanderbilt Health acquired a Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville cardiology practice as part of efforts to bring Vanderbilt-quality cardiovascular care closer to home. Two experienced interventional cardiologists now practice at the Clarksville location of Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute. Both doctors completed their cardiology training at Vanderbilt before committing their clinical efforts to the Clarksville community.
The clinic offers close-to-home access to all aspects of preventive cardiology, assessment of symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, performance of interventional cardiology procedures such as cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and stent placement in Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville’s cardiac cath lab. They also offer cardiac device placement such as permanent pacemakers, automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (AICDs) and biventricular pacemakers/AICDs.
Access will grow this summer as a third interventional cardiologist joins the practice in August. Work to recruit additional providers to the Clarksville location of Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is ongoing.
“We understand that Clarksville is rapidly growing and remains a very attractive destination for families and industry. Our longstanding relationship with Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville is vital to our mission to serve the citizens living and working in this area. Over time, we have worked closely together to establish outstanding specialty programs in neonatology, heart, cancer and obstetrics. VUMC will continue to invest in new services to help advance the hospital’s essential role in the community,” said C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, deputy CEO and chief health system officer for VUMC.
“For more than 70 years, Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville has been investing resources to increase its capacity and the services available to Montgomery County and the surrounding region, and these investments are continuing,” said Emery. “We are proud to be the hometown hospital and to play an important role in helping our community access the broad range of medical care and services they need. Whether it’s an acute medical emergency, surgery, or some other medical treatment to help you get well and live healthier, it’s a privilege to care for every patient.”
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