Erlanger Health System
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Erlanger Baroness Campus
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States |
| Coordinates | 35°02′53″N 85°17′23″W / 35.048176°N 85.28966°WCoordinates: 35°02′53″N 85°17′23″W / 35.048176°N 85.28966°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Tennessee College of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Beds | 813 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Links | |
| Website | erlanger.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in Tennessee |
The Erlanger Health System (often referred to as Erlanger Hospital or simply Erlanger) /ərlindʒər/, is an academic system of hospitals, physicians, and medical services based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Erlanger is a tertiary referral hospital and Level I Trauma Center serving a 31,400 square-mile region of Southeast Tennessee, North Georgia, North Alabama, and Western North Carolina. The system’s critical care services are accessible to patients within a 100-mile radius through five LIFE FORCE air ambulance helicopters, each equipped to perform in-flight surgical procedures and transfusions.
Founded in 1889, Erlanger is the seventh largest public healthcare system in the United States with more than half a million patient visits a year.
Erlanger is led by President & CEO Kevin Spiegel, FACHE. Spiegel joined the health system in 2013, after serving more than five years as CEO at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN.
As the primary teaching hospital for the University of Tennessee College of Medicine's Chattanooga campus, Erlanger trains physicians enrolled annually in the medical college’s residency and fellowship programs. Enrollment for the 2015-2016 academic year includes 176 residents and 13 fellows. Medical students from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis,TN may also elect a variety of clinical rotations at Erlanger. Nursing students, paramedic students, and many other allied health students also train at Erlanger in conjunction with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), Chattanooga State Technical Community College (CSTCC), and other regional colleges.
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