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190Dr. Smith noted Dr. Dibrell came to Erlanger Bledsoe because it is very unique, affording him the opportunity to provide inpatient medicine and clinic.</p> <p class="p1">âItâs a model that has fallen away over time and thereâs not many places that you can practice like that anymore,â said Dr. Smith.</p> <p class="p1">Accolades were given to the staff at Erlanger Bledsoe, many who have been there for numerous years. One of those, Loretta Dodson, has 45 years with the hospital, noted Boynton.</p> <p class="p1">One thing that sets Erlanger Bledsoe apart, according to Dr. Smith, is when a patient is treated at the facility, the staff has been there long enough to get to know the patients and how they can help them, he explained, especially in the treatment of elderly or dementia patients who like being treated by someone familiar, or even like family.</p> <p class="p1">âThereâs no group that measures up to them, in my opinion,â said Dr. Phillip Burns, whose father Randall Burns served on the first hospital board for Bledsoe County Hospital when it opened in 1971. His father, along with former Bledsoe County Executive Billy Frank Wheeler, were among the people who were instrumental in establishing and opening the hospital then.</p> <p class="p1">Dr. Phillip Burns played in intricate role in securing the partnership between Bledsoe County and Erlanger 25 years ago in order to keep the rural hospital open. Prior to that in 1980, Dr. Burns helped get the helipad at the hospital for emergency helicopter landings.</p> <p class="p1">That âgolden hourâ is vital in the survival rate for trauma patients, said Dr. Burns, so the addition of the helipad enhanced the hospitalâs ability to be a critical access hospital.</p> <p class="p1">Since Erlanger Bledsoe was established in 2001, many improvements have taken place including the addition of a CT scanner, mammography, additional labs, and specialty doctor services like cardiology. Plans are to expand the existing doctorâs office and add such specialty physicians as urology, pulmonary, sports medicine, and obstetrics. Boynton added the hospital is receiving a grant to expand women and children health access here too.</p> <p class="p1">Currently, the facility is undergoing renovations to the Emergency Room area, waiting areas, adding a mobile MRI that can be used at Erlanger Bledsoe and in Dunlap at Erlanger Sequatchie Valley, reported Boynton.</p> <p class="p1">Erlanger Bledsoe has become a model for how a central entity can help rural health care, said Dr. Burns.</p> <p class="p1">That model led to the addition of a satellite emergency room in Dunlap, known as Erlanger Sequatchie Valley. After Sequatchie Countyâs relationship ended with HCA, explained Boynton, Sequatchieâs health data showed it was ranked 91st of 95 counties. Since Erlanger Bledsoe established a satellite emergency room facility, Boynton said, within two years Sequatchieâs health ranking improved to the forties.</p> <p class="p1">Erlanger Bledsoe is working to grow physicians. One way to accomplish growing doctors for rural communities is a program that has been added at Erlanger Bledsoe – the rural residency program. Resident doctors can come to Pikeville to do their residency and will hopefully want to become a rural doctor.</p> <p class="p1">With the newly opened TCAT (Tennessee College of Applied Technology) Upper Cumberland in Pikeville, Boynton said Erlanger Bledsoe hopes to work with the facility in the training and hands-on work experience for students. 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