Wellmont Closing Jonesborough Medical Associates
Two Wellmont owned physician offices will soon merge.
According to Wellmont spokesman Brad Lifford, Jonesborough Medical Associates will merge with Gray Station Primary Care in Mid-December.
Wellmont officials say the merger will allow them to offer a broader scope of services to patients in Washington County.
Dr. Michael Thornsberry will be moving his practice to Gray Station Primary Care on December 15 and will see existing patients and new patients at the Gray office.
Wellmont released the following statement:
Dr. Landon Combs is a board-certified pediatrician who maintains a popular practice treating children throughout the region at Gray Station Primary, and the addition of Dr. Thornsberry will be especially convenient for parents. A board-certified family practitioner, Dr. Thornsberry can serve the primary healthcare needs of children and their parents. Dr. Stephen Combs, a board-certified pediatrician who founded Gray Station Primary Care with his brother, continues to practice part-time at Gray Station in addition to his role as Wellmont Health System’s senior vice president for medical affairs.
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March 27, 2008
KINGSPORT TIMES NEWS
“This will not improve…the orderly development of adequate and effective health care, but will harm it”... “misleading” - Dr. Gene Caldwell on Wellmont being denied by The Certificate of Need board, state of Tennessee.
Seems misleading is the way this health care facility operates. What they say in their fancy advertising is 360 degrees from what is on record as what they deem the ‘acceptable’ standards of health care in East Tennessee. I agree with Dr. Caldwell, they are misleading and harmful.
Google : www.wisecountyissues.com and see what really is their acceptable level of health care.
Tim Mullins
Pound, Virginia
Please don’t “hollar union”. That is why GM is in so much trouble. They have let their union decide how much their pay will be, what benefits they will have, etc… Just think, some of these factory workers are making over $100,000 a year, while people who make an average wage (I make $8.25 working in a convenience store just up the road from a GM plant in Shreveport LA.) How are people making average wages supposed to pay for a new car. GM has no one to blame but themselves, and their union. They have priced themselves out of business.
Well….It seems that our good ole wellmont is “TELLING US” what to do once again, what we need and dont need. All they care about is the almighty dollar….they cant even give a good bonus as the have in the past for they want the money for themself. Everyone, we NEED A UNION….call the loacl TEAMSTER in Blountville and let get a voice for the common workers…..LETS GET A UNION
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