Tennova Healthcare - Turkey Creek Medical Center and North Knoxville Medical Center Commemorates Doctors’ Day with Donations to the Tennova Auxiliary Benevolence Fund
3/30/2023
KNOXVILLE, TN (March 30, 2023) – This year, to celebrate National Doctor’s Day, Tennova Healthcare - Turkey Creek Medical Center and North Knoxville Medical Center found a unique way to thank the providers who serve our community and hospitals. In lieu of gifts, Tennova Healthcare donated money to local charity.
“We are incredibly grateful to our medical providers who serve our community,” said Tony Benton, CEO of Tennova Healthcare - East Market. “We are fortunate to have them and want to acknowledge their contributions, sacrifices, skills and unwavering care to the thousands of lives we at Tennova Healthcare touch each year.”
Earlier this month, the physicians voted to determine what cause they wanted the money to go towards. They elected to help the Tennova Auxiliary Benevolence Fund with a donation of $2,500 from each of the two Tennova Healthcare hospitals in Knoxville, totaling $5,000.
The Tennova Auxiliary Benevolence Fund is a 501(c) that benefits our employees in financial need due to an unforeseen crisis (sickness, divorce, death in family, fire, etc). It also supports patient needs at discharge if no other resources are available such as necessary medication, oxygen and even clothing. This fund has helped support these needs at all five regional Tennova hospitals as well as physician practices.
Doctors’ Day was first observed in Winder, Georgia. Started by Eudora Brown Almond, the wife of a prominent Georgian doctor, the day was meant to recognize and honor doctors for their service. She decided the best way to do that was to mail greeting cards to all the doctors she knew and to place flowers on the graves of deceased doctors. She used red carnations- a flower still used to this day for National Doctors’ Day celebrations. Each year, on March 30, we celebrate National Doctors’ Day to honor the professionals for their dedication and contributions to the community and society. Tennova Healthcare - Turkey Creek Medical Center and Tennova Healthcare - North Knoxville Medical Center are sincerely grateful to doctors for all that they do.
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