Cardiologists from Tennessee Heart will be celebrating the opening of a new clinic in Albany with an open house and ribbon cutting on Tuesday, February 17 from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. and the public is invited to attend. A ribbon cutting is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. and lunch will be served. The clinic is located at Clinton County Hospital at 723 Burkesville Road.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Tennessee Heart is based in Cookeville and has cardiologist Stacy Brewington, M.D. currently on-site at the Albany Clinic seeing patients every other week on Tuesday afternoons. Patients in the Clinton County area now have the convenience of seeing a Cookeville cardiologist in Albany instead of traveling to Cookeville for every visit.

Currently staffed with ten cardiologists and one electrophysiologist (heart rhythm specialist), Tennessee Heart originally opened in Cookeville in 1994 and has a patient base consisting of people from counties throughout the Upper Cumberland and southern Kentucky.

Establishing clinics in outlying areas surrounding Cookeville is a natural expansion for the group and for Cookeville Regional Medical Center.

“Community outreach is important to us and the hospital,” said cardiologist Thomas Little, M.D. of Tennessee Heart. “We have found that patients really appreciate us coming to them for their office visits. We are glad to be able to do that and offer them big city cardiology care at their convenience.”

In addition to the clinic in Albany, Tennessee Heart also has outreach clinics in Sparta, Livingston, Jamestown, Celina, Crossville and Fairfield Glade.

The physicians at Tennessee Heart are on the medical staff at Cookeville Regional Medical Center and provide services through the Heart and Vascular Center at Cookeville Regional. To contact Tennessee Heart, call 931-372-0405 or 888-391-0048.

Since 1994 The Heart and Vascular Center at Cookeville Regional has provided much needed cardiac and vascular services in the Upper Cumberland. Since its opening, the Center has grown and expanded to include not only comprehensive diagnostic tests and treatments but also interventional procedures such as angioplasty, stent placement, pacemakers, electrophysiology and arrhythmia procedures, implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation and cardiothoracic surgery (including beating heart, minimally invasive heart surgeries as well as heart valve repair and replacement). Some of the most common vascular conditions treated are aortic aneurysm, carotid artery disease and peripheral artery disease. Boasting a well trained medical staff specializing in treating heart and vascular conditions, The Heart and Vascular Center at Cookeville Regional is staffed by board certified cardiologists, vascular surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiothoracic anesthesiologists who are supported by a team of healthcare professionals who are specifically trained in the field of cardiac and vascular care.

The Heart and Vascular Center has recently been ranked one of Healthgrades’ America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care and Coronary Intervention in 2015.

Shown on opening day of the Tennessee Heart Albany Clinic on Tuesday, January 20 are Mitch Stonecipher, RN, CRMC’s Director of Invasive Cardiology; Donna McSpadden, CEO of Tennessee Heart; Janice Beard, RN, Clinton County Hospital Chief Nursing Officer; patient Harold Reeves and wife Pauline of Albany; cardiologist Stacy Brewington, M.D.; Taylor Fletcher, RN and Kim Stonecipher, RN of Tennessee Heart