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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Uhs operates the university of tennessee medical center ("medical center") which offers medical care to a twenty-one county service area located throughout east tennessee, and provides services to patients located in southeast kentucky, southwest virginia, and western north carolina. Through operation of the medical center, uhs provides healthcare services within its community and beyond, providing specialized care that is customarily only available at academic medical centers; supports medical research and education through an affiliation agreement with the university of tennessee graduate school of medicine; provides a patient base for training physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health professionals; and provides support for clinical research and research training.
Programs: Patient care servicesplease see schedule o for detail regarding patient care services in the statement of community benefit.
as the only academic medical center in the region, uhs is committed to education in order to prepare healthcare professionals for the future. Education is an ongoing endeavor for all employees, many of whom will have an opportunity to serve as teachers as well as students. The medical center collaborates with the graduate school of medicine and other academic institutions, and it maintains a learning environment with devotion to technological and treatment advances that provide better care for patients.
unreimbursed charity care and self-pay discount