Horizon Medical Center Improves Local Health-Care Options
Dickson County residents' health-care needs are attended to primarily by physicians and medical personnel at Horizon Medical Center, as well as at the multi-specialty practice, Dickson Medical Associates.
“We have a beautiful, scenic quality of life here in Dickson County, so medical facilities are able to recruit top doctors and physicians who don’t want to live in big metropolitan cities,” says Betty Weaver, director of marketing for Horizon Medical Center and Natchez Medical Park. “This whole region west of Nashville is growing, and so is the quality of medical care that residents here are receiving.”
Horizon Medical Center & Natchez Medical Park
HMC continues to expand its technology and medicine by opening a campus on 66 acres along Highway 46, near Interstate 40. Known as Natchez Medical Park, the campus houses one building that includes a Sarah Cannon Cancer Center on one side and a Natchez Imaging facility on the other.
“Our old hospital building continues to serve the community well, but the eventual goal is to keep expanding Natchez Medical Park and move everything there over time,” says John Marshall, CEO of Horizon Medical Center and Natchez Medical Park. “We are working on an ambulatory surgery center for outpatients and will construct some medical offices as part of that phase,” he says. “Then the final stage of construction will be implemented to build an inpatient tower. Once the tower is constructed, all equipment and services from Horizon Medical Center will be moved to Natchez Medical Park.”
Horizon Medical Center continues to be a leader in medical innovation and treatment for the five counties it serves. For example, one of the surgeons at HMC is trained to perform an innovative balloon sinuplasty procedure, whereby the surgeon relieves a patient’s sinus passages by running angioplasty tubes through the gums instead of the nose.
“We also have a surgeon who does a procedure on the lower back called an axial lift, to separate vertebrae that have been compressing together,” says Betty Weaver, director of marketing for Horizon Medical Center and Natchez Medical Park.
Dickson Medical Associates
Dickson County has other top-notch medical facilities available to the public, including Dickson Medical Associates, which opened an 83,000-square-foot facility along Highway 46 in Spring 2009. The multi-specialty practice provides the latest in medical technology, with an emphasis on patient convenience and satisfaction.
