TriStar Clarksville Hospital

None of the funding will come out of your pocket. TriStar Health is a tax-paying entity that partners with charitable organizations and local groups in an effort to give back to the community.

Clarksville is growing rapidly, increasing the strain on existing hospitals. This contributes to long wait times, congested emergency rooms and difficulties accessing specialty care. An additional hospital will ensure that all Montgomery County residents have access to the care they need and that Clarksville has the healthcare infrastructure to handle future growth.

Multiple hospitals provide the consumer with a choice of where they wish to receive care, creating healthy competition between health systems that elevates standards of care and benefits Montgomery County residents.

Clarksville is the fifth largest city in Tennessee and is on track to reach a population of 200,000 by 2028, nearly double what it was in 2000. Despite this rapid growth, healthcare access has not increased at the same rate. Clarksville is almost the size of Chattanooga, but Clarksville has only one acute care community hospital plus one military hospital at nearby Fort Campbell across the state line in Kentucky. Chattanooga has 11 hospitals, including five acute care medical-surgical hospitals, two satellite hospitals, two rehabilitation hospitals, two behavioral health hospitals and one long-term care hospital. Another acute care hospital is located in neighboring Hixson, in Hamilton County.

TriStar Clarksville Hospital would bring more than 200 healthcare jobs to the community.

The facility would initially be built with 68 beds and will have capacity to expand to 224 beds in the future.

TriStar Health has strong ties to the Clarksville community through collaboration with Blanchfield Army Community Hospital. Several TriStar Health hospitals provide a variety of collaboration opportunities including: continuing education, best practice sharing, observation and shadowing, NICU support and emergency preparedness. For three years, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital soldier surgeons have worked side-by-side with TriStar Skyline's trauma surgeons to provide expert care to the most critically injured patients in the region. This program allows soldier medical providers to take the first-hand experience they learn alongside TriStar Health physicians and clinical staff with them as they provide life-saving care in the field.

HCA Healthcare was named as a Best for Vets Employer by Military Times  for the fifth consecutive year for efforts to recruit, mentor and retain U.S. service members. HCA Healthcare has hired more than 65,000 veterans, active-duty and reserve personnel and military spouses since 2012.