New Lab Equipment

Another area of updated services is the hospital laboratory’s UniCel DXC 600i Synchron Access Clinical System equipment, which was installed in the lab in September, 2006. This machine processes up to 40 samples at one time and currently performs 48 tests simultaneously, but has the capability to add an additional 41 new tests in the future.  It has advanced safety features for the employees and has decreased turn-around-times on laboratory test results which gets results faster to the physician. This is another area in which Claiborne County Hospital is as technically advanced as other hospitals much larger in size. In fact, according to Laboratory Director Brandi Callebs, Claiborne County Hospital was the first hospital in the state of Tennessee to install this state-of-the-art laboratory equipment.  Many laboratory representatives from area hospitals have visited Claiborne County Hospital Lab to see the new equipment in consideration for their own hospital.

Sleep Center

A new diagnostic service that many members of the community are unaware of is the new Sleep Center located at Claiborne County Hospital.  There are very few hospitals in Tennessee that have their own Sleep Centers, and one of them is located right in our back door.

The Sleep Center, where people schedule appointments through their family physicians to come to the hospital, spend the night, and be monitored for sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, is located in the main floor of the hospital and has short waits for appointments. The cost is also considerably less than that charged by larger hospitals in the East Tennessee area.