Newport Medical Center serving Cocke County for over 50 years

Newport Medical Center (NMC) is a 74-bed facility and employs approximately 250 people. NMC also operates Newport Convalescent Center, a 56bed, long-term care facility that has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Nursing Homes in Tennessee by Consumer Reports.

Newport Medical Center opened in 1969 as Cocke County Memorial Hospital and has undergone numerous upgrades over the past 52 years, including opening of the Medical Surgical Unit and a Maternal-Infant Care Unit in 1983, a Critical Care Unit in 1991, a new

Emergency Department in 2004, and a complete Medical Surgical renovation, including all private rooms, in 2010. In March of 2019, the hospital unveiled its renovated birthing center, as well as its capability to perform breast surgeries.

Scott Williams was named CEO of Newport Medical Center in January of 2021, taking over for Matthew Littlejohn.

NMC’s services include a Hospitalist program, one which NMC continually evaluates with an ongoing emphasis on patient care. A hospitalist is a physician specialist whose office is “within the hospital.”

A hospitalist is an extension of a patient’s primary care doctor, who also has the capability of referring patients to other specialists. With this model the hospitalist can concentrate time and energy on hospital patients, in close connection with the patients’ primary physicians, who are thus freed to devote more time to the patients in their offices.

In 2010, the hospital became a “smoke free” campus, and in 2011 became a “tobacco free” campus in keeping with their dedication to providing the best