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• Tennova Healthcare’s Turkey Creek Medical Center welcomes William McAlexander, M.D. FACS, to its team. He specializes in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, is board certified with American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow Member in American College Surgeons and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
• Tennova Healthcare has announced interventional cardiologist, Mitesh Solanki, M.D., has joined the team at North Knoxville Medical Center and is now accepting new patients at 7557B Dannaher Drive, Suite 225 in Powell. He provides such cardiac care as areas of interventional and structural heart disease, advanced heart failure and transplant. Appointments can be made by calling 865-647-5800 or online to tennovagreaterknoxvilledocs.com
• Patrick McMahon and Shirley Schady are joining FirstBank’s Emory Road branch in Knoxville, which is set to open in October. Both come to FirstBank from First Horizon Bank.
• Priority Ambulance and its partners at Faithful Guardian Training Center recently celebrated the graduation of Priority’s first international paramedics as part of its International EMS Workforce Initiative program.
The ceremony marked the completion of an intensive six-week paramedic boot camp. Following graduation, two members of the inaugural international class, Dana
and Kim Aldwin, will continue their American EMS journey as licensed EMS professionals at Puckett EMS in
Austell, a member of the Priority Ambulance family of companies.
• FourSeasons Incorporated recently was recognized as a Top Workplace in Knoxville by Knox News for the second year in a row. Knox News and Knox.biz partner each year with a top professional survey firm to determine the best workplaces and company cultures across East Tennessee. In 2022, FourSeasons was one of only a handful of Knoxville businesses of comparable size to receive this prestigious honor, which is determined by employee feedback.
• Following the historically competitive year for Tennessee Athletics in 2022-23 — a record sixth-place finish in the LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup and second consecutive SEC All-Sports title — Tennessee Fund reported its second-straight record year across multiple fundraising metrics.
The Tennessee Fund had an all-time and record-breaking fundraising year during the 2022 fiscal year. However, Tennessee Fund surpassed those historic benchmarks to establish new top marks for fundraising total: $89,338,717, cash receipts ($72,821,769) and total donors (28,387) in the fiscal year ending June 30.
