Middle Tennessee Medical Center News

Middle Tennessee Medical Center recently donated an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to Providence Christian Academy in memory of Hallee Cartwright, a sixth-grade student at PCA who passed away in October 2009 after what was believed to be complications from the H1N1 flu and a bacterial infection.

"Providence Christian Academy is so very grateful to MTMC for the donation of our AED machine in honor of Hallee Cartwright,” said Terri Parker, the academy’s director of development. “Being a part of a wonderful community is so important, and we are so thankful to MTMC for their generosity.”

An AED is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient, and is able to treat them through defibrillation, the application of electrical therapy which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to reestablish an effective rhythm.

Saint Thomas Health Services is a faith-based ministry with more than 6,500 associates serving Middle Tennessee. Saint Thomas Health Services' regional health system consists of four hospitals - Baptist and Saint Thomas in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro and Hickman Community Hospital in Centerville - and a comprehensive network of affiliated joint ventures in diagnostics, cardiac services and ambulatory surgery as well as medical practices, the Center for Spinal Surgery, clinics and rehabilitation facilities. STHS is a member of Ascension Health, a Catholic organization that is the largest not-for-profit health system in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sths.com.