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East Texas Medical Center Tyler

February 14th, 2010

“People want quality healthcare, whether they live in a larger community or a smaller one,” says Elmer G. Ellis. Ellis is the president and CEO of East Texas Medical Center. “We try to creatively provide this healthcare for people who have chosen to live in the area we serve. We want to provide a high quality of service at a cost that allows people to have access to it.”

That simple philosophy fuels East Texas Medical Center (ETMC), one of the largest and most important organizations in all of Tyler. ETMC employs over 8,000 East Texans in its many hospitals and clinics. These facilities are spread throughout eighteen different counties. Among these are more than a dozen hospitals including:

ETMC (Camp County)

ETMC (Cherokeey County)

ETMC Mount Vernon (Franklin County)

ETMC Fairfield (Freestone County)

ETMC Athens (Henderson County)

ETMC Crockett (Houston County)

ETMC Carthage (Panola County)

ETMC Clarksville (Red River County)

ETMC Trinity (Trinity County)

ETMC Gilmer (Upsher County)

ETMC Quitman (Wood County)

ETMC Tyler (Smith County)

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Of course, the flagship hospital is in Tyler across from the other medical giant, Trinity Mother Frances Hospital. East Texas Medical Center Tyler is a modern, 420 bed facility that offers general and surgical care for adults and children all over East Texas. Among ETMC’s many services are an excellent maternity unit, hospice services, cardiac treatment, cancer services, and psychiatric care. Here are some of the largest, most important departments in the Medical Center:

Emergency Services

The ETMC Tyler hospital is equipped to handle pretty much anything. ETMC Tyler is considered a Level 1 Trauma Care center. What that means is that the emergency room is equipped with excellent modern technologies and a formidable, capable staff.

ETMC has other emergency services around East Texas, but the Tyler hub is the only Level 1 trauma care center. Thankfully, the health system is well equipped to transport patients when needed with a full ambulance system and four different helicopters.

Obstetrics

If you’re having a baby, ETMC Tyler is well known for its Obstetrics services. The Tyler hospital is equipped with a beautiful state of the art birthing center. The ETMC philosophy is to have one room where everything happens. They call this the LDRP concept (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum). Rather than moving mother and baby to various rooms, the rooms at the birthing center are large, versitile and lovely. These rooms are each equipped with full bathrooms including bath and shower.

Are you outside of Tyler? No problem! In the ETMC health systems, Athens, Crockett, Carthage and Jacksonville all offer obstetric services. Each location can help you welcome your new family member in a safe and caring environment.

ETMC Cancer Institute

You might have heard recently that ETMC purchased a facility in Athens called the Athens Cancer Center. This news makes perfect sense for those who are familiar with ETMC’s services in the region. The ETMC Cancer Institute is an active wing, offering some of the most comprehensive treatment and modern technologies available. Specifically, the ETMC Cancer Institute boasts the region’s first CyberKinfe Stereoactric Radiosurgery System, an incredibly accurate treatment for tumors that would usually be termed as inoperable.

In addition, the Tyler ETMC Cancer Institute utilizes a wide variety of services from routine mammography to surgical oncology. Other services include Radiation treatments, IMRT, Brachytherapy, etc. The acquisition of the Athens Cancer Center is a significant event, because it marks the first time that some of these specialized treatments have been available in east Texas outside of Tyler. ETMC officials insist that there will be no change in services to cancer patients who came routinely to the Athens Cancer Center.

ETMC Cardiovascular Institute

ETMC Tyler offers many advanced services and treatments for heart care. The Cardiovascular Institute opened in 1993. Their services are comprehensive. Their high tech CT units can serve as a wonderful early detection system for heart related illnesses, and their surgical team can handle many different procedures, should surgery be needed. Also, ambulances in the ETMC system are equipped with new technology that helps them to quickly figure out the type of heart attack a person has just had, thus saving precious minutes when they are needed most.

ETMC Behavioral Health Center

The ETMC Behavioral Health Center in Tyler exists to help people heal. Whether a patient is suffering from a mental illness, or just from emotional baggage, the Behavioral Health Center can help. The doctors here help patients fight through all kinds of issues, from substance abuse and addiction issues, to depression, to bi-polar disorders. The Behavioral Health Center applies a wide assortment of treatment options, from group therapy to activity therapy to 12 step programs. And yes, if you are looking at treatment, it is covered by Medicaid, Medicaid, and many other insurance options.

ETMC Fitness

In accordance with ETMC’s philosophy of overall health, the Medical Center offers its own Fitness Center in Tyler. It is equipped with pools, tracks, and a variety of equipment that you would find in leading gyms and exercise centers around the country. The ETMC Fitness centers offer personalized training in a flexible environment for adults all over the region.

As you can see, East Texas Medical Center has much to offer. If you are looking for a hospital in Tyler Texas, ETMC can probably handle whatever you need and then some.

Tyler, TX Hospitals

February 8th, 2010

Tyler Texas HospitalsIf you are looking for a hospital in Tyler, TX, you have come to the right place. For a city of just around 100,000 people, Tyler has excellent medical resources. Not only is the specialty Spine & Joint hospital one of the best in the nation, but the 3 major general hospitals in the city are very competitive, and offer a wide variety of services. But even if you live one of Tyler’s many outlying towns, you are still in good shape.Tyler’s major hospitals are incredibly well connected with general and specialty clinics all over East Texas.

Here is a brief rundown of the three major Tyler Hospitals:

UT Health Science Center at Tyler

UT Health Center is located North of Tyler on Highway 271 has more than 20 outpatient clinics scattered around Tyler and the surrounding towns, and a 109-bed academic hospital, and an Emergency Care Center. This hospital employs more than 90 full-time registered nurses. UT Health Center’s primary focus is researching, educating about, and caring for pulmonary and heart disease, but they include a broad range of specialty clinics from their Center for Asthma, Allergy, & Lung Disease (and how many East Texans DON’T struggle with allergies?) to their Podiatry Clinic. [ad#large-blog-block]

Trinity Mother Francis Hospital

Mother Frances Hospital merged with Trinity Clinics in 1995. The result was Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics. In the outlying East Texas communities like Minneola, Jacksonville, Athens and Quitman, Trinity Clinics offer a wide array of health services, and because they are linked with the hospital, there are virtually endless treatment options.

Trinity Mother Frances Hospital is the most celebrated hospital in the entire East Texas region. It is a faith based and non-profit hospital which has served east Texas for ore than seventy years. Located on S. Beckham Street, TMFH is a 370 bed facility that offers general medical and surgical care for adults and children, obstetric care, and includes an around the clock emergency department. The hospital employs more than five hundred full-time registered nurses.

Trinity Mother Frances is especially well known for treating heart related illnesses. The Trinity Mother Frances Heart Institute has performed more than half a million cardiac procedures, including thirteen thousand open-heart surgeries. The heart institute has received a 5 star rating for its cardiac services.

East Texas Medical Center

East Texas Medical Center in Tyler is also located on South Beckham on the East side of Tyler, right across from Trinity Mother Frances. ETMC Tyler and is one of 15 systems throughout East Texas.

ETMC is a non-profit, 422 bed hospital, employing more than six hundred full-time registered nurses. Services provided include general medical and surgical procedures, both adult and pediatric, obstetric care, and psychiatric care.
Like Trinity Mother Frances, East Texas Medical Center bills itself as a Healcare system, offering clinics all around the region, including Gilmer, Van Zandt, Rusk and Athens. These clinics offer a variety of services. In all, ETMC employs more than six thousand workers in its fifteen hospitals. ETMC aims to make health care more local for East Texans. That means they don’t focus the bulk of their resources on their central Tyler hospital, but on these smaller hospitals and clinics.

Tyler is also home to a specialty hospital

The Texas Spine & Joint Hospital

Texas Spine & Joint Hospital is a for-profit, 20 bed hospital that employs more than sixty full-time registered nurses. Their physicians specialize in all varieties of spinal care and surgery. They have received a Five Star rating for Joint Replacement surgery and for Spine Surgery from the HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Studies. More impressively, the Texas Spine & Joint Hospital is ranked # 1 in all of Texas for Spine Surgery, and in the top 5 percent nationally for spine surgery.