When Knoxville's East Tennessee Baptist Hospital was first proposed in 1943, the city was in dire need of more hospital beds. Higher than anticipated costs made fundraising a challenge.

Mr. Jimmy Delano (JD) Robinette formerly of Knoxville, TN, passed away on April 23rd, 2025, at Brookwood Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, AL at the age of 85. He was married to his wife of 65 ...

Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care has agreed to sell the Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital, a long-term acute care facility, to Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Medical Corp.

A proud graduate of South High School's class of 1967, she began her professional life as a switchboard operator at Baptist ... to East Tennessee Children's Hospital (P.O. Box 15010, Knoxville ...