A change is happening at the top of Sweetwater Hospital Association (SHA).
SHAâs Board of Directors and Scott Bowman have announced his upcoming plan to retire from his longstanding role of hospital administrator effective Jan. 1, 2021.
SHAâs Board of Directors selected Ian McFadden, D. Sc., to be Bowmanâs successor in the role of chief executive officer (CEO).
Bowman has previously been employed by Woods Memorial Hospital, Epperson Hospital, and Athens Community Hospital.
He began his journey at Sweetwater Hospital Association in May of 1976 as the assistant administrator and, after one year, was promoted to administrator. In 1977, Bowman, through a unique hospital-physician management arrangement, the first of its kind, was able to recruit medical specialties and sub-specialties to the hospital and community that are still in effect.
A change is happening at the top of Sweetwater Hospital Association (SHA).
SHAâs Board of Directors and Scott Bowman have announced his upcoming plan to retire from his longstanding role of hospital administrator effective Jan. 1, 2021.
SHAâs Board of Directors selected Ian McFadden, D. Sc., to be Bowmanâs successor in the role of chief executive officer (CEO).
Bowman has previously been employed by Woods Memorial Hospital, Epperson Hospital, and Athens Community Hospital.
He began his journey at Sweetwater Hospital Association in May of 1976 as the assistant administrator and, after one year, was promoted to administrator. In 1977, Bowman, through a unique hospital-physician management arrangement, the first of its kind, was able to recruit medical specialties and sub-specialties to the hospital and community that are still in effect.
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How one hospital system is relying on a fleet of Dodge minivans to make sure healthcare workers in remote areas can get their COVID shots
How one hospital system is relying on a fleet of Dodge minivans to make sure healthcare workers in remote areas can get their COVID shots
Shelby LivingstonDec 16, 2020, 00:52 IST
Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped.AP/Morry Gash/Pool
Distributing COVID-19
vaccines to
rural areas hit hard by the pandemic will be one of the many difficult challenges that states and
health systems face in vaccinating Americans.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based health system Sanford Health is planning to use a fleet of Dodge minivans to courier Pfizer vaccines to rural
Rural hospitals will get the Moderna vaccine when it arrives. Author: Jeni Diprizio Updated: 6:06 PM CST December 9, 2020
MEMPHIS, Tenn. COVID-19 vaccine could soon be on its way the Tennessee but the numbers show it won t be near enough to vaccinate the healthcare workers and long-term care residents who are supposed to get it first.
Tennessee is set to receive just over 150,000 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines once they are approved, but there are 450,000 in highest priority group of people who are supposed to receive it.
The initial shipment of the vaccine could arrive in Tennessee as early as this weekend.