By Crystalle, MedSurg Manager As I look back on National Hospital Week last week, I began to reflect on my experience working here and what makes this small community hospital a diamond in the rough. When I first came to BSFMC, I was excited to… Read More »Working at Big South Fork Medical Center
Each year, National Nurses Week (May 6-12) coincides with Florence Nightingale’s birthday on May 12). Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820. During the Crimean War, she and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British hospital, reducing… Read More »National Nurses Week
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital recently visited our Emergency Room team at Big South Fork Medical Center to provide pediatric emergency care training, with a focus on infant cardiac arrest. We discussed team dynamics, medication safety and how to be better prepared for running a smoother… Read More »Pediatric Emergency Care Training
This year at Big South Fork Medical Center, we are delighted to support the local efforts of The Oneida Police Department and their annual ‘Shop with a Cop’ initiative. Each year the Oneida Police Department works closely with the local school systems, law enforcement and… Read More »Big South Fork Medical Center Supports Local Shop With a Cop Initiative
On Dec. 03, 2021, Rennova Health, Inc. (OTC: RNVA) announced that the application by its hospital, Scott County Community Hospital, Inc. (DBA Big South Fork) in Oneida, TN, for designation as a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) has been approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).… Read More »Big South Fork Medical Center Receives Critical Access Hospital Certification
We recently attended the 5th Annual Fall on the Mall, a community festival in Huntsville to celebrate autumn and Halloween. This year Fall on the Mall consisted of games and activities, food vendors, a costume contest, trunk or treat and a movie under the stars.… Read More »Fall on the Mall 2021
Today we wore pink to represent October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We wear pink to honor survivors, remember those lost to the disease, and to support the progress we are making together to defeat breast cancer! This month and every month, please remember your… Read More »Wear it Pink 2021
Access Physicians and Big South Fork Medical Center Launch Telehospitalist Service May 25, 2021 (Oneida, Tennessee) – Big South Fork Medical Center has contracted with the nation’s leading multispecialty telemedicine physician group to bring telehospitalists to the hospital to increase in-patient services. This means patients… Read More »BSFMC Partners with Access Physicians
Rennova Health, Inc. (OTC: RNVA) is pleased to announce its critical access hospital in Oneida, Tennessee (Scott County Community Hospital, Inc., d/b/a Big South Fork Medical Center) has received notice from Medicare that it can now be reimbursed using a “swing bed” payment model. According to the 2020… Read More »EXPANSION OF SERVICES AT BIG SOUTH FORK MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL, TO INCLUDE SWING BEDS.