Other features include a 32-bed intensive care unit, a 21,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) emergency department, expanded maternity services, and a surgical suite with 10 operating rooms.
The group works with clinics and health care facilities throughout Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky in more than 20 counties.
Members of the network include:[10] The Ascension Saint Thomas Neurosciences Institute is among the Nashville area's most comprehensive brain, back, nervous system and spine centers.
[11] The Ascension Saint Thomas Neurosciences Institute is the only health care center in Tennessee to provide Novalis Shaped Beam Surgery.
[12] The Bariatric Program at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital provides a variety of weight loss procedures to assist in the treatment of morbid obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, arthritis, asthma, acid reflux, infertility and high cholesterol.
Because the recovery process can be an emotionally difficult experience, Life Therapies services are located in clinics that are designed as a comfortable environment conducive to healing.
It was determined that creating the new Life Therapies service line would allow therapists and physicians to better treat patients that don't require traditional sports medicine.
The center touts the use of unique treatments, such as non-surgical interventions (cystoscopy, urodynamics, colposcopy and tibial nerve stimulation), pelvic floor physical therapy (postural and pelvic floor muscle evaluation), and surgical treatment options (diagnostic laparoscopy, awake pain mapping, urethral slings and advanced robotic techniques).
An American College of Surgeons-accredited program, Saint Thomas Health provides treatment and prevention services for a number of forms of cancer, including brain, breast, cervical, colon, lung, ovarian, prostate, uterine and others.
[18] Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital is the official healthcare provider for the Middle Tennessee State University athletics program.