Hospital Facilities

Erlanger
Graduate medical education is one of the major missions of Erlanger (officially called Erlanger Health System), a comprehensive, not-for-profit teaching institution. Erlanger is also the area's major teaching hospital and a recognized leader in health care. With Southeastern Tennessee's only Level I Trauma Center, Erlanger is the largest provider of emergency care in the state of Tennessee and ranks 10th in the nation for trauma admissions. Erlanger provides primary, secondary, and tertiary care to a population of more than three quarters of a million people in Chattanooga and the surrounding counties in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

The main complex actually houses three main inpatient components:

Erlanger Baroness Campus (adult patients), T. C. Thompson Children's Hospital (pediatric patients), and Willie D. Miller Eye Center (ophthalmology patients). The overall Erlanger Health System is licensed for more than 800 licensed beds.  The main complex supports a current resident staff of 147 residents/
fellows and a medical staff of over 700 physicians.

The Erlanger Baroness Campus offers seven specialized critical care units:  Trauma, Surgical Intensive Care, Coronary Care, Neuromedical/Neurosurgical Intensive Care, Burn, Cardian Surgery Intensive Care, and Medical Intensive Care.

Other state-of-the-art services located at Erlanger include:

• Erlanger Heart and Stroke Center

• Erlanger Medical Mall

• Regional Women's Center

• Regional Cancer Center

• Regional Diabetes Center

• Regional Burn Center

• Regional Heart Center

• Regional Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center 

• Plaza Ambulatory Care Center

• Regional Wound Center (Hyperbaric Unit)

• Regional Kidney Transplant Center

• Tennessee Craniofacial Center

• Erlanger North (a small inpatient hospital located in the Red Bank Community)

• Erlanger East (an ambulatory diagnostic and surgery facility located in the East Brainerd community in Chattanooga)

• Women's East Pavilion (a specialized facility for women's health services, including non-high risk obstetrics, located adjacent to Erlanger East)

• Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority (REMSA)

• Chattanooga MedComm

Mindful of the resident's demanding routine and the patient's need for quality care, Erlanger allows "doctors to be doctors" by utilizing 24-hour ancillary teams for respiratory therapy and lab work for both private and non-private patients.

Erlanger is also working toward a user-friendly, secure electronic format through which physicians can input and access patient information on the Erlanger network. Click on the link to the left to view the PowerPoint Flash presentation about Net Access Technology.