Ballad Health donated four new cardiac monitor/defibrillators to Unicoi County EMS on Friday to replace critical equipment ...

Floodwaters from Helene devastated the Unicoi County Hospital, causing the lose of a lot of equipment. The building you’re ...

Six Impact Plastics employees died after taking refuge on the back of a semitruck trailer at PolyPipe USA in Erwin, Tennessee.

The State of Tennessee and FEMA have approved $9.8 million to replace Ballad Health’s hospital in rural Erwin which was destroyed when Tropical Storm Helene swept across Eastern Tennessee in late ...

Those conditions made it impossible for would-be rescuers to retrieve patients and staff from the Erwin hospital via boats. By 12:30 p.m., 54 people were stranded on the roof and patients who were ...

The hospital in Erwin, Tennessee was destroyed by floodwaters, but no one died. In hindsight, why was it built next to a river?

The hospital on Erwin Road, which receives the most 911 ... but also access to other key services very rapidly.” Cleanup from flooding in the hallways and front entrance of the Emergency ...

about 45 minutes northwest of Erwin, said some residents were quietly critical of the new hospital’s location. “We all thought that it was a stupid idea to build a hospital in a flood plain.

ERWIN, Tenn. — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter. “So, I don’t want to be dramatic,” she wrote on Sept. 27, “but we are gonna fly and rescue patients from ...

The hospital, on Erwin Road, was still diverting ambulances ... In an update Saturday, hospital officials called the flooding an “unprecedented event.” Gordon Smith, chief paramedic for ...

Floodwaters from the Nolichucky River surround Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tennessee, during Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27, 2024. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Alan Levine ...