Bradley Medical Center: Your Community. Your Care. Your Future.
Bradley Medical Center has kept its promise as your not-for-profit hospital, reinvesting in our community and strengthening access to connected care close to home. Stand with us to keep care local, accessible and community focused. Your voice can make a difference.
How you can help
Community members, patients, families and local leaders can share their concerns and help ensure decisions reflect what’s best for our region. Our community deserves better, and we’re committed to protecting access to the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
Urge the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission to reject Parkridge’s profit‑driven freestanding ER proposal, and affirm your support for local, connected care at Bradley Medical Center by signing our Petition to oppose the Parkridge Freestanding Emergency Department.
Bradley Medical Center has kept its promise as your not‑for‑profit hospital, reinvesting in our community and strengthening access to connected care close to home. In 2025, we added new and expanded services including orthopedics, women’s imaging and comprehensive care, endocrinology, and ear, nose and throat. We also hired 17 new physicians and upgraded our hospital beds.
And we’re continuing to invest in the future of Bradley County. Our commitment looks decades ahead. We’ve developed a 10-year facility growth plan and secured land acquisitions to ensure you continue to receive the care you need close to home. We remain committed to expanding services that keep families healthy, connected and supported.
Why it matters
At Bradley Medical Center, our priority is keeping high-quality, people-centered care close to home for every member of our community. That will never change. That’s why we’re asking you to stand with us as we fight to protect continued growth and ensure access to care close to home.
Parkridge Medical Center is a for-profit hospital owned by HCA. HCA’s business strategy is to use FSED’s to channel patients to its hospitals even when a hospital like Bradley is closer, has lower rates, and has the same services. Bradley County residents who needed further care would likely be transferred to Parkridge in Hamilton County instead of to Bradley Medical Center, four miles away.
The Parkridge FSED will offer no services not available at the Bradley ER. Parkridge’s rates are substantially higher than Bradley’s. Approval of the Parkridge FSED means more travel, higher cost and less access to Bradley Medical Center’s connected care for Bradley County residents. Stand with us to keep care local, accessible and community focused.
Bradley County already has access to integrated, full-service emergency care at Bradley Medical Center that includes specialists, coordinated follow-up and comprehensive support just minutes from your home.
When you or your loved ones need emergency care, minutes matter. Bradley Medical Center’s emergency department is integrated with our full-service hospital with surgical teams, specialists, imaging, labs, inpatient units and coordinated follow-up care in the same building or just minutes away. Parkridge Medical Center’s proposed emergency room does not.
Freestanding emergency rooms are not community care providers. They charge hospital-level ER fees without hospital-level services. When you or a loved one requires more advanced care, you maybe transferred to providers in Chattanooga at a time when you are most vulnerable. Together, we can keep healthcare local, accessible and community focused.
Bradley Medical Center has been recognized for its service and commitment to patients. We are a full-service inpatient hospital with an outstanding recent Joint Commission survey, ACC-accredited Chest Pain Center, Joint Commission Acute Stroke Ready Hospital and an orthopedic joint program with the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Total Knee and Hip.