August 2026

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Hello. And you are now watching the Cannon County Chamber Connection. And of course, as always, this is brought to you by DTC Communications with our thanks. We've been doing this for several years now, and it's a benefit to our businesses, our Chamber members, and also our nonprofit people in town who do a lot of work for our community. You know, school's starting fall. Sports are starting this month. Some of them have never quit. We have them year round. And then, of course, we're three and a half months away from Christmas. Think about that for just a few minutes. Okay. This month, this chamber sponsored in July, not this month. They sponsored a summer bonus month. And it was for our businesses in Cannon County. And we want people to shop at home as much as they can. And we had three winners. One was Tasha Farrell. Jeremy Judkins and Janie Blanton were the three top winners. So. [00:01:38] Speaker C: And we want to get close to Tasha Farrell. If you ever see Tasha Farrell out in the streets, tell her you want to be her best friend, and here's the reason why. And I explained it to them when we gave it away Monday. Tasha Farrell won the big prize. She won the $300. And then the other two won 200, and the other one won 100. Well, Tasha Farrell was also our winner in December, when the Cannon Courier ran their receipt competition, she won 250 bucks. So I said, one more of these receipt contest winners and you'll have a triple crown going on. [00:02:14] Speaker B: Well, she says, bless her heart. She said that she prayed each time the day that. And so I thought, well, maybe you ought to go buy a lottery ticket. But this is working. [00:02:28] Speaker C: Yeah. That's where I say, let's go. Let's go. Right now we gotta go play. Play the Powerball on whichever one it is. [00:02:36] Speaker B: But we wanna congratulate them. And of course, this was over and above what they were gonna spend anyway. This is just wanting people to shop at home. We live here. These businesses come for every sport. Every time somebody's raising money, they hit our businesses for it, which is fine, but this is just our way of giving back to them. So that was a good thing. And the Chamber did sponsor that. All right. We do have some guests with us today, and our first one is Kristen Andrews. And Kristin is a part of something that is new to Cannon county, but I'm going to let you tell about it. Kristen, it's life wise of Cannon County. [00:03:28] Speaker D: Yes. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Now, what does that involve? [00:03:31] Speaker D: We bring Bible education to the public school student during the school day. [00:03:37] Speaker C: How are you able to do that. [00:03:39] Speaker D: We operate under a 1952 Supreme Court decision that rules that we can do this as long as we are off school property. So it can't be on school premises. Privately funded, no government funds are used and parents permission. Parents have to enroll their kids into the program. [00:04:02] Speaker C: Gotcha. Now how do people do you. I know that you're gonna be over at the Cannon north side of things. Where's the off premises? [00:04:11] Speaker D: We are launching, we have a pilot school this year. As funds allow, we can expand through the whole school district. But we are starting at Cannon north and the cowboy church who is like, you can throw a stone at them and hit the church. [00:04:28] Speaker C: Yes, I got you. [00:04:29] Speaker D: It's like 0.4 miles. We still are going to bust them over. [00:04:33] Speaker C: Okay. [00:04:34] Speaker D: But yeah, they have opened their doors and they have been just absolutely great to us and they say that they want to serve the students. [00:04:45] Speaker B: How long does this class last? [00:04:47] Speaker D: So we, we use electives so we can do it during art PE library. We will work with the school and do the scheduling. [00:04:58] Speaker B: But I mean it's an hour long program. [00:05:01] Speaker D: Yeah, each of those electives are different. I mean some people use recess. [00:05:05] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:05] Speaker D: Yeah, so it's about, I think average is 45. That's why LifeWise likes you to be within a mile of the school. So you're not wasting time transporting kids because it's going to take five minutes to get them on, five minutes to get them off, you know, with kids. So yeah, we, we do it within about 30 minutes sitting down classroom time. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Are there certain grades that are involved in this? [00:05:27] Speaker D: Yes, it's from first to high school. But we at our launch school, we're doing third, fourth and fifth. [00:05:34] Speaker C: How many kids have you got so far? [00:05:36] Speaker D: Well, we haven't opened enrollment. We just now opened enrollment. We're waiting for the school system. We're going to their workshop next Tuesday and they're going to present it to the, to the school board and just get it out there in the community and then from there we'll launch and we can start signing kids up. [00:05:54] Speaker B: Is this five days a week? [00:05:56] Speaker D: No, it's just one day a week is what the law says. So just one day a week we pick them up safely, transport them off school property for age appropriate gospel centered Bible teaching and then return them to school. No cost to the school district or the parents. [00:06:09] Speaker C: Now this is the same hour every day or do you know the day that you do this? [00:06:14] Speaker D: When we schedule with the school weekend, [00:06:15] Speaker C: you don't have to keep going back and forth and Kids are out. [00:06:19] Speaker D: Yes. So third and fourth and fifth grade. We'll take the third graders first. We'll take the fourth graders and we'll take the fifth graders. We would like to do it all in a row. So we'll just look at the schedule. Third grade may be at recess. This one may be the next one be at art. So we'll just transport them and if we can take them both, if the schedule allows, we can take both of them at the same time. We have a big old school bus, so. [00:06:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:40] Speaker D: Okay. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Well, it depends on how much room you have and how many kids you have involved. [00:06:45] Speaker D: Yes. We are a nonprofit. We are a 5013 seed with a local operating leadership board. All donations to Lifewise of Cannon county stays right here. In our local program, we are partner. We partner with community members, churches, businesses to bring Bible education to kids. [00:07:06] Speaker C: Gotcha. That's a good suggestion. [00:07:08] Speaker D: That'd be a great thing. Yeah. The impact our kids nowadays are facing so many challenges, y'. All. I just seen last week a new one that said one in five high school students consider or have thought about suicide. Is that not sad? There's a need, not just suicide, but our kids are facing all time high rates of anxiety and depression too. And people can argue about what is causing this mental illness. [00:07:41] Speaker B: Social media, I think social media has a lot to do with it. [00:07:46] Speaker D: Yes. People can argue a lot of things cause it. Home environments, screen time, electronics. But what it really comes down to is kids just not knowing about Jesus, how to treat others, how you want to be treated. Respect. [00:08:03] Speaker B: It's called respect. [00:08:05] Speaker D: Yes, that's what we're focusing on. Our Bible lessons are all focused on [00:08:10] Speaker C: characteristics and you know, to your point, I'm involved with the Cannon County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition and we go to the Canon County Drug Recovery Courts. There is not, I think what we. 14 graduates, there is not one of them, not a one of them that hasn't approached that podium and started talking about their faith. [00:08:34] Speaker D: Yes. [00:08:34] Speaker C: And how it changed their life. It was faith. It wasn't necessarily the program taught faith. Yes, but they grasped the faith concepts. [00:08:44] Speaker D: Yes. [00:08:45] Speaker C: And it's changed their life totally. [00:08:47] Speaker D: Lifewise likes to say that we're not just teaching cute little Bible stories, you know, we're investing in the next generation and we're helping build a foundation that will guide them for the rest of their lives. And programs like this only succeed when a community comes together and says, you know, our children matter. Rutherford county has one. Their program is thriving. Warren county has it. The impact stories Are amazing and I believe we'll have it here too. [00:09:13] Speaker C: And you're gonna be a teacher there or what are you doing? [00:09:15] Speaker D: I'm the program director. [00:09:16] Speaker C: Oh, you're right. [00:09:17] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:18] Speaker D: I have to make sure everything is running. Volunteers, teachers. We're just like the school system. We have subs, people are gonna be sick. We have forms we gotta fill out, we have attendance. We have to talk to the school with and coordinate with the school. We're gonna treat it like a field trip. So when the kids come to the door to get on a lifewise bus, we've got a list of third graders. We're going to say, okay, little Johnny's here. We're going to check them on and off the bus. You know, a kid could be left in the bathroom. You know, you got to round them up. You got to say, this is who's on the bus. Let's go in for our lesson. We're going to come out, we're going to take roll again. I love likewise. And their security measures they have in place. Our doors have to be locked just like the school. Visitors cannot just show up at our class. They have to check in with the school. Little Johnny's mama forgot about a dentist appointment. She has to go to the school, check them out. They notify us, we check them out. And just to be a teacher or a volunteer or on our leadership board, you have to be affiliated with the church. You have to have a pastor of reference and a background check. And then after that you take child abuse, neglect. [00:10:21] Speaker B: What are the qualifications to be a teacher? [00:10:24] Speaker D: So you have to have a degree in education or be a teacher and. Or three years of Sunday school. [00:10:32] Speaker C: Three years of teaching Sunday school. [00:10:34] Speaker D: Teaching Sunday school. [00:10:35] Speaker B: Okay, now this is going to be something you're going to be asking. [00:10:38] Speaker D: Yes. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Is this any certain denomination? [00:10:41] Speaker D: This covers all denominations. We keep it strictly non denominational and just gospel. All the gospels are the same. You know, everybody pretty much believes the gospel and we try to keep it just that. And what I like about lifewise is they're not in the business of baptizing kids or saving kids. We believe that's church business. We know kids are going to ask us questions and they're going to want to be baptized. We want to point them to a local church and get them plugged in because that's where your roots really grow. [00:11:12] Speaker C: Yeah, makes sense. [00:11:14] Speaker B: And you know, part of the problem or not? Well, I guess it would be a problem. You got to have the teacher, the parents support on this too. [00:11:25] Speaker D: Yes. They have to Sign their kids up. That's part of the pillars of the three pillars of the law. The time release law is what we go on rtri. It's release time, religious instruction. And part of that law is it has to be privately funded, off school property and parent approved. [00:11:43] Speaker B: But a parent can sign up if they're willing. [00:11:46] Speaker D: We still need a few volunteers, we still need a few teachers, and we even have room on our leadership board. Y' all want to. [00:11:54] Speaker C: I think I'm serving too many boards as it is. Now, when you say volunteers, what do the volunteers do? [00:12:02] Speaker D: Well, lifewise is really good about when you have a classroom full of kids. We have so many volunteers that have to be in that classroom. As far as the numbers of the kids in the classroom. Yeah. So if little Johnny's got, you know, behavioral issues, we like to have someone sit with him, you know, or medical condition or we like to have enough volunteers in the room to help the teacher. And it's an interaction. They're not just sitting down. We believe they sit in the classroom for six hours on average. Kids sit in a classroom learning, so we like to have ours interaction and they get up and they act out stuff. And it's a really fun environment for kids. And we have enough volunteers to. To be in the room to help. [00:12:46] Speaker B: Okay, well, Kristen, I give you credit for taking this on. Yes. It's probably gonna take a while for it to catch on. [00:12:55] Speaker D: Yes, we are community funded and volunteer supported. So we need the help. [00:13:03] Speaker C: What's the next step? [00:13:04] Speaker B: You need the funds? [00:13:05] Speaker D: We need the funds and the volunteers. [00:13:07] Speaker C: What's the next step? [00:13:08] Speaker D: The next step is we are gonna launch in October at Cannon North. So like I said, next week we'll be enrolling kids and we're going to Red Apple days this weekend. A lot of those kids in that community go to Canon north or Zone for that school. So that's where we're gonna start. [00:13:26] Speaker C: All right, well, good deal. And maybe you can lasso those kids from school to. [00:13:30] Speaker D: We've got prizes. Hey, come get your free tattoos. [00:13:33] Speaker C: Free tattoos? [00:13:34] Speaker B: Tattoos don't do that. Body piercings and tattoos. [00:13:38] Speaker D: Hey, they're Christian tattoos. They're Christian tattoos. [00:13:40] Speaker C: Lifewise Academy tattoos. [00:13:42] Speaker D: Yeah, just, you know, God is. You know, just stuff like that. [00:13:46] Speaker B: They're not permanent, right? [00:13:48] Speaker D: No, no. A little alcohol take them right off. [00:13:51] Speaker E: Alcohol? [00:13:51] Speaker C: Rubbing alcohol. [00:13:52] Speaker D: Rubbing alcohol, yeah. They probably might just wash off, to be honest. [00:13:56] Speaker C: Probably would. [00:13:57] Speaker D: Thank y' all for having me. Love what y' all are doing. Y' all work hard. I've been missing Carolyn working with you last couple of years? [00:14:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we. [00:14:05] Speaker D: You too, Keith. [00:14:06] Speaker B: Talk to each other at least four or five times a week. [00:14:09] Speaker D: Yes. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Well, do you like what you're doing? [00:14:13] Speaker D: I love it. I love it. It's just something that's close to my heart. I've always loved kids. I've always coached our kids in our community. And I'm a member of casa, a volunteer for casa, and I just feel like it's just something God's led me to do. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Well, all right, good deal. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Dr. Ramsey is the chief medical officer for the Ascension St. Thomas Upper Cumberland Hospitals. [00:14:37] Speaker B: Okay. [00:14:38] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [00:14:38] Speaker B: Am. All right, so you're here to talk to us today about St. Thomas Stones River Hospital, right? [00:14:46] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Am. You are the administrator? [00:14:48] Speaker A: Yes, ma', am. I'm the administrator and President of Ascension St. Thomas, Stones River. And we. We just want to come on and kind of talk about our services and brought on Dr. Ramsey to discuss things from kind of a clinical quality perspective. And we have a lot that we're really proud of at Soldier. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Well, that's fine. [00:15:11] Speaker A: Yeah. So of course we offer behavioral health services. We have a 24.7er and then we also have a medical unit, an inpatient medical unit as well. And so just really excited to offer those things and just wanted to hand it over to. To Dr. Ramsey to talk about kind of the high quality that you see and the high quality care that you can get close to home there at Stones River Hospital. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Can I. I'm going to start out with the elephant in the room. Okay. And I just heard this, and of course, this would affect me. United Healthcare. You're dropping that as an insurance. Right. [00:15:58] Speaker A: So we actually have, you know, we. I'll be honest, Doctor. Dr. Ramsey and I are probably not super in the weeds on the. On the insurance portion, they have told us, but we. We have a whole team that works on that, that's done at a very, very high level, those negotiations. And so, so we, you know, we do still take those United States healthcare plans. I do know that much. But that's still at a very high level. And as site leaders, we focus on operations and clinical. Clinical quality and things like that. Yes, ma'. [00:16:34] Speaker D: Am. [00:16:34] Speaker A: Unless you. Unless you have anything to add or know anything. I don't know. [00:16:37] Speaker E: No. You know, our goal is to take care of as many people as we can as effectively as we can. So I know that our team, you know, in Nashville that. That kind of lead our market overall, have been the ones involved in these. In these conversations. And, and I know, well, usually It's [00:16:53] Speaker B: a negotiation type thing. [00:16:55] Speaker E: Absolutely. And I know that their goal is to be able to be as inclusive as possible. [00:17:03] Speaker B: The reason I ask it is there's a lot of people on Medicare that have their insurance through United Health Care. So when I got a letter regarding that, I thought, oh, no, surely not. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Yeah, I know that, you know, Ascension's goal is to take care of as many people as possible as you can. Yes, ma'. [00:17:27] Speaker C: Am. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Well, tell us a little bit about your end of it, then. [00:17:31] Speaker E: Sure. Well, I'll go ahead and just introduce myself as my background. My name is Josh Ramsey. I am the chief medical officer for our Upper Cumberland hospitals, which includes Ascension, St. Thomas, Stones river, as well as Ascension, St. Thomas, DeKalb River park and Highlands, and, you know, Sparta, McMinnville and Smithville. [00:17:53] Speaker B: Right. [00:17:54] Speaker E: But, you know, one of. One of the most interesting places that I work is here at Stones River. I've been. My background is in internal medicine, so I do general internal medicine as my practice, but have really learned a lot about this community and about this great hospital in the last, you know, I'd say two years or so that I've been working more closely with Stones river, initially on the more clinical side and now more on an administrative side. So really proud to be. To be working out here. It's an excellent hospital that we have here in Woodbury. And, you know, I think that this. We are very proud of the care that's provided in this hospital, and I think this community should be very proud of the hospital as well. You know, I think one of the things that gets missed sometimes when we think about, okay, we've got small hospitals, rural communities, limited resources. You know, we don't have surgeons. We don't have cardiothoracic surgeons or cardiologists. We can't do heart caths. We can't. We don't have an icu. What we do do, we do really, really well. And that has always been the focus is we could intentionally try to expand services, but when you're doing them at a low volume, the quality tends to not be where we want it to be. So what we do, we do really well, and we actually have data to support that. When it comes to things like readmissions, which is basically a measure of how likely is it that when you leave our hospital that you're going to have to come back within 30 days. We consider that a loss on our end. If you come back to the hospital in 30 days. We feel like we should have done more either in the hospital or after your hospitalization to make sure that you were able to stay home or stay out of the hospital. Because that's the whole point. We don't want people bouncing back and forth. Another measure that we look at is mortality, which is how likely are you to survive your hospitalization? So I'm really proud to say that these are two things that we measure. We measure them against the other hospitals in Tennessee. We measure them against hospitals all over the country. And Stones river stands out as an exceptionally high performer in both of those areas. When you compare it to national benchmarks, our patients are more likely to survive their hospitalization and less likely to have to come back to the hospital in 30 days than over 80% of the hospitals in our country. [00:20:28] Speaker B: Sometimes smaller is better, huh? [00:20:30] Speaker E: That's right. So you're talking about personalized care. You're talking about a smaller cast of very highly trained physicians, folks that, when you come to the hospital, you've probably met before, you know, you've seen each other because they know your name. That's right. [00:20:45] Speaker C: That's right. [00:20:46] Speaker E: Which means that they know you. It's less of an anonymous interaction than a personal situation where you've been cared for before, even if that person's not your primary doctor. Being one of the couple of hospital doctors that we've got, there's a connection there. And the same thing with our emergency room. A lot of hospitals are primarily working with a varied number of emergency medicine doctors. By and large, our emergency medicine doctors are trained specifically in emergency medicine. We've got a few folks that are trained in general medicine, which turn out to be excellent emergency room providers as well, especially with the experience that they've got. But we really are very intentional about not putting anyone that walks through the door into our emergency room. We want them to have the expertise to provide the care that. That our patients need here. And if we can take care of you in Woodbury, great. If we can. If we have to connect you to one of our other hospitals that have more resources, you know, at river park or Smithville or Rutherford or even Nashville, you know, we've got that easy connection. We've got knowledge between providers, between hospitals where we really feel like if you show up to our hospital, to our emergency room in Woodbury, you're going to get the highest quality care available in middle Tennessee. [00:22:13] Speaker B: And see, that's. I like the local hospitals. I would hate to lose our local hospital mainly because of the emergency services. I mean, if you have an emergency, sometimes you don't have time to go to you got to go to the nearest hospital you can get to. [00:22:34] Speaker E: Absolutely. And that's why we are so serious about making sure that our doctors, at that point of contact in the emergency room are the highest trained, highest qualified physicians that they can be. We're very particular about who works in our emergency rooms because perhaps even more important, in a hospital where you don't have cardiologists and surgeons and all of this other backup of specialists, you have to have people in that emergency room who know everything and can do it well, such that they can either take care of you in that moment or they can get you what you need until you get to the place where they have the services you need. [00:23:10] Speaker B: Right. [00:23:11] Speaker E: And that takes a specialist. It takes an expert. [00:23:13] Speaker A: And another thing, within Ascension St. Thomas, you know, we do have those specialists, and so, you know, it kind of. We have those resources when folks need them. But if they can have the care close to home here in Woodbury, that's what we want to. [00:23:30] Speaker B: Well, most people would rather stay close to home. You know, I have a lot of people that tell me, well, I don't want to go to Nashville. I thought, okay, you know, we've got one here. But most people would rather be close to where they live if they're in the hospital. Now, I know some time back, you used to have cardiologists and everything that came in certain days a week to the hospital or certain days a month. Do you still have that, where you have specialists that come in? [00:24:09] Speaker A: We still have. We have a few specialists that rotate through the specialty clinic there in our mob. And we do have a cardiologist who comes, I believe, every other Wednesday as well. Yes, ma'. [00:24:23] Speaker C: Am. [00:24:24] Speaker B: Okay. Now, your specialty clinic, is that part of Stones river or is that a separate entity? But it's just at Stones River. [00:24:33] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a. It's a combination. We have a community. There's a community physician that has things set up in that mob, who also serves us as a hospitalist. And then the cardiologist, as well, rotates through. So it's kind of a combination there. [00:24:54] Speaker B: What age groups or what type of patients do you see in the specialty clinic? [00:25:01] Speaker A: Yeah, I would say, you know, all ranges. It really just depends on what's needed. Yes, ma'. [00:25:09] Speaker C: Am. [00:25:09] Speaker A: I don't believe there's pediatrics, any pediatric specialty there, but it really just depends on what's needed. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Okay. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [00:25:20] Speaker B: Am. So it used to be a lot of it was for elderly patients that came in there that had dementia and this type of thing. I didn't know if it was still just focused on that or if there were other types of medical. [00:25:39] Speaker A: So in the hospital. Yeah, in the hospital itself, we offer geriatric behavioral health, so that might be where that's where we would see the most patients with dementia type issues. And then we also serve the adult population at Stones river behavioral health wise, you know, 18 and up. And so we have whatever would be needed from that standpoint from a general behavioral health perspective. And then also on the medical unit, there's a wide variety of things that a patient could be admitted for as well as in the ER. Dr. Ramsey, do you have anything to add to that? [00:26:22] Speaker E: No, I think you hit the nail on the head. What you're describing sounds a lot like our geriatric behavioral health unit, again, focused very much on patients, you know, who are elderly, oftentimes with dementia having, you know, either uncontrolled, you know, psychiatric symptoms, depression, anxiety, or overt confusion or dementia. That. That where. With behaviors that. That we can't. [00:26:50] Speaker D: That. [00:26:51] Speaker E: That are keeping them from being safe in their home environment. So we've got a great team of nurse practitioners and physicians that take care of those patients and help them get to a point where either through therapy or medication or a combination of multimodality interventions to make them safe to be home, because ultimately, that's where we know people thrive. And that is the best setting for anyone that can be at home should be at home. [00:27:17] Speaker B: Right. I agree with that. I do. I will say one thing about our hospital. It has the cleanest floors of any hospital I've ever been in. It does it just. When you walk in, it just looks so clean. [00:27:37] Speaker A: Well, that's great to hear. We take. Take a lot of pride in that. And we do have a great. A great EVS team and they do a great job. I agree. You could. I mean, it looks like you could. You go off the floors, they're always extremely clean, extremely shabby. [00:27:53] Speaker B: And I always notice that when I walk in. I think, dang, they mopped again today. [00:27:59] Speaker A: And just the location of Stones river, it's a really beautiful location. Sometimes I've worked late and been leaving at night, and you can just see the whole downtown area lit up from the hospital and it's just a go. And then in the daytime, of course, it's just so hilly and you can see it's kind of sitting up on that hill and you can see everything. It's a gorgeous location. So it's, you know, we take a lot of pride in how things look [00:28:26] Speaker B: and you should be safe. You're right next to the fire department, the health department, and the jail. So you should. You should be covered in all areas. [00:28:35] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Am. [00:28:36] Speaker E: Certainly. [00:28:37] Speaker A: It's all right there. It's all right there. Well, thank you so much for. For having us. [00:28:42] Speaker B: No, anytime y'. All. Something new comes up or anytime you want to be on the show. Keith, did you have anything you wanted to ask? [00:28:50] Speaker C: No. You guys covered it pretty much. Good. One thing I was going to ask was about the health switch on the insurance. But let me ask you this, though. I do, of course, everybody knows I'm with the Canon Courier on Mondays. I do a thing that's called Medical Monday. And I get my information. I'm part of the Mayo Clinic network. Is there a Ascension St. Thomas network that releases press releases, medical education? [00:29:22] Speaker A: We do have a marketing team as far as medical education goes. Do you know of anything, Dr. Ramsey? [00:29:29] Speaker E: Not that I'm aware of. But if that's. [00:29:31] Speaker C: I've looked around, you know, I've looked around and thought, you know, and that's something that I'd like to see you guys provide, if you could, is maybe we could do a column in the paper because there's a lot of medical, you know, questions that get asked. I think this week we talked about the difference between one medical condition and another medical condition a Mayo Clinic touched on. They're good. I mean, don't get me wrong, but I would love to do something with local, you know, hospitals. Of course, obviously, we're the only game in town. Cinch of St. Thomas. And it's a great hospital. You guys are doing. Guys are doing amazing stuff. I live in Murfreesboro. You guys are doing amazing stuff in Murfreesboro. You're opening up new hospitals, much needed new hospitals, so you don't have to go through to the main campus. You can actually get medical care at the South Church now has got one. I believe there's going to be one over off of Las Casas heading toward Canning County. Yeah. So, I mean, you guys are growing and really doing a great job at what y' all do. And I know y' all aren't directly involved with that, but you're part of the network, you know, really appreciate that. [00:30:43] Speaker E: Certainly. We want to make sure we have as many points of contact for people as close to home as possible, which is why you mentioned we've got, you know, the freestanding emergency room in Las Casas coming Mount Juliet and other sites in the works. So we're really excited to be able to provide more points of care. And, and again, to the, to the point you brought up at the beginning, you know, we are, we are trying our best to partner in such a way that we can take care of everyone in this community. And that. That's our goal and that's where we want to get with, with these. [00:31:16] Speaker B: You have a lot of 55 and older people that live in Cannon County. But, you know, even with that, if you have a child that gets hurt or car accident or something, you want to get them to the closest place you can. And I've had to use Stones River Hospital several times when my kids were growing up. [00:31:39] Speaker E: And I can say objectively, you know, we've got the numbers to show it. It is a good place to get care. It is a great place to get. Get care. And I think that anyone that thinks about driving past Stones river when they need emergency medicine care should, should reconsider because we've got a great team there that provides super high quality care and has the expertise to know what we can and can't do. What we can do. Like I said, we do it well. And what we can't do, we're connected to a network that provides the best care in middle Tennessee. [00:32:09] Speaker B: Right. Okay. Do you still serve dinner to the public? [00:32:15] Speaker A: So we're. I mean, yeah, folks, anybody can come in for. For lunch. And yeah, it's a. The kitchen does a really great job. Yeah, kitchen does. [00:32:25] Speaker B: Well, I knew it was open at one time and I had heard it had opened again, and I didn't know if people were aware of that or not. That you can go there for lunch. [00:32:33] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [00:32:33] Speaker E: Am. [00:32:34] Speaker B: Because they used to have really good food. [00:32:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, they do have really good food. And I know that that's something I've heard several times, is that, you know, a lot of people enjoy coming and eating there for lunch. [00:32:46] Speaker B: So that sounds strange, doesn't it, that you go to a hospital to eat lunch. But hey, if it works. [00:32:53] Speaker A: Doesn't sound strange to me. I do it almost every day. [00:32:55] Speaker B: I'll bet. I'll bet. Well, I'm glad to meet you and I'm glad to have you all on, and anytime you want to, just give me a call, we'll set you up. [00:33:06] Speaker A: Sure thing. [00:33:07] Speaker B: You may have some big something happen over there that you need to let people know about. [00:33:12] Speaker A: So usually it's just going to be. It's going to be the updates and just letting people know what we can do for them. [00:33:18] Speaker E: So. [00:33:18] Speaker B: All right. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yes, ma'. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Am. [00:33:19] Speaker E: Thank you very Nice to meet you. Thank you. [00:33:21] Speaker C: Good meeting you. [00:33:22] Speaker B: I'll go ahead and go to the events. You know, the weather has been a real issue with a lot of events this year. The cruise ins, I've had one cruise in plus one hour because it started raining before it was up. Okay. This last month they were hollering 70% chance of rain on that day. Well, it rained that morning and it rained hard. Then the afternoon we were supposed to get more rain back. Well, of course it didn't do anything and we had already called it and because, you know, 70% rain, they're not going to bring the cars and sit down there in the rain. Well, I've heard some remarks about it because it was cloudy, but it didn't rain. But that's a chance you take because I can't, I can't wait till the last minute to call the cruise inns and the car show. And of course the car show is an all day event. We put a lot of money and time into that. So that's one of the things that we can't just let go. We do have a rain date on it. And of course our car show is September 26th. It will be on the screen square and all cars, trucks, vehicles are welcome. You know, every year I hear, well, your car show, you had new cars. Well, we did have some last year, but it's an open show so if you got something you're really proud of, we're not going to turn you away. But we do like to cater to a little bit, to the older ones, the classics, let's put it that way. But we welcome everybody to our car show. It is a fundraiser and that's what you have to keep in mind. And it will start at the registration for that will start at 8 o' clock in the morning till 12 noon. We have great judges that will come in and they get it done as quickly as they can. And we give out the awards and there will be 72 trophies and six cash awards that will be presented at the car show this year. And of course we have a lot of sponsors. The brochure will be out shortly and O'Reilly's is they give a top 40 plus, they're going to do three trophies. That is O'Reilly's choices and they get to pick which ones they want it to go to. The rest of them, the judges do, except for the people that request buying a trophy and given to their choice. So we let that happen too. But of course our next cruise in is scheduled for the 15th that is not the fourth Friday, but the Saturday. But the reason we moved it up is because we didn't want to interfere with another car show that I haven't heard a whole lot about. But it was supposed to happen on that same day. [00:36:51] Speaker C: Yeah, it's on the 22nd. It's still on on the 22nd. [00:36:55] Speaker B: Okay. One of the other things that, of course, this show probably won't be up until going, but Red Apple Days in Auburn Town is this weekend. And the Lions Club has one of their famous fish fries on the 22nd of August. And if you've never been to one of them, you don't. You've missed out on some good eating because they have unlimited fish, chicken, white beans, slaw, French fries, hush puppies. You can't. You won't go away hungry. [00:37:35] Speaker C: Yep. [00:37:36] Speaker B: So that's on Saturday 22nd August. And of course, the money raised for the fish fries or any of the things that the Lions Club does usually goes to their charities. And they have a lot of them also. Community baby shower. Now, you told me you had a date on it. [00:38:02] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was looking for. I know people were like, what's he going through his phone for? But that's what I was trying to find out. August 28th, it's on a Friday, goes from 4 to 6pm and it's going to be located at the Bethesda House Ministry House worship center. That's 216 S. Dillon St. Former home of the Dillon Street Baptist Church. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Yeah, used to be. [00:38:27] Speaker C: And it's going again from 4 to 6pm it's absolutely free. People could come in and get a wide variety of baby items that they would need for their newborn. The only thing that there'll be a little educational piece, you know, kind of like the Department of Health is helping with this. So they'll have a little educational piece to information to give each new parent. And it should be a good event. They've had. They had one a few months ago. I think they do it one every quarter or every couple quarters. And it went. It was very successful. [00:39:06] Speaker B: And what was the time on that? [00:39:11] Speaker C: 4 to 6pm so if you're gonna [00:39:14] Speaker B: have a baby, you probably need to go to this. You'll get some very needed things. Believe me. You don't know what you're gonna need until you have that. [00:39:25] Speaker C: This will give you some of the things. Some of the things that you'll need, I'm sure, you know. [00:39:31] Speaker B: Cause it's a whole new world out there for that. [00:39:34] Speaker C: Right. [00:39:35] Speaker B: Then we get into September, which is hard to believe that we're already going into September. Of course, I've been in several stores lately and Halloween and Christmas is already out. They just kind of run together anymore. They put out the fall stuff, they put out Christmas. And of course Christmas is my thing. That's, that's fine. We could have Christmas every week. It wouldn't bother me. Okay, what else have we got? I can't find anything else. And there probably is. [00:40:11] Speaker C: Do we have a new member? [00:40:13] Speaker B: Yes, we do. We have two new members, but the newest one is Darla Cunningham and she is administrator of Grandview Living, Assisted Living. And it's going up Woodbury Hill toward macminville. And she. I visited their facility last week. It's great. Right now they are full. I think that she is. She qualifies for six. It is assisted living. They serve meals, they have nurse. They have everything you could want up there. Great rooms, great care. And I believe that she will be on the show possibly next, next taping that we have. But if you wanted to check into that and maybe get on their, their list, if you have a, an elderly parent or someone that you think needs. They also do like daily care. If you have to work and you have someone living with you that needs to have someone with them all time, you can take them in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon. And of course, all of this depends on how much room they have to do this also. But certainly call it again, it's called Grandview Living. And I was very impressed when I went up there. I thought if I had an elderly parent or someone in my family that needed to be seen to on a daily basis, this would be a great place to take them. And again, her name was Darla Cunningham. And we have another new one that just joined yesterday. And this is something different for Cannon county. And it's called the Timeless Tea and Bed and Breakfast. And I don't know how many of you know where the Brevard House is, but these people bought that property and they are making a a B and B out of it. And then they're going to have a Timeless Tea Room where you can actually have tea parties. And this is by invitation only, but they're going to have a sneak peek on Friday, August 21 from 5 to 8pm where you can come and kind of tour the facility. And, and like I say, it is by invitation only. And the ribbon, they will cut the ribbon at five o'. Clock. And like I say, it's not open to the public. Just yet. The owner of this property is going to be Holly Smith. And she came in and talked to me for quite a while yesterday and I wish her well with this. But there is also a bed and breakfast that will be on the top floor of the Brevard house. And if you want the address for that is 902 W. Main St. In Woodbury. And I have the phone number and how you can get in touch with her. If you have someone coming in and you were looking for for a place for them to stay, this would be one of the great facilities that you might look into. And also, I don't want to forget this, our art center who has had something going on all year and all summer. And their next play will start August 7th through the 22nd and it's called Big Fish. And the one after that will be in October. And I believe that it's Dracula. I may go see that one. I like Dracula movies. And also one of their biggest events of the year is the White Oak Craft Fair. And that will be September 12th and 13th. White Oak brings people in, I've always said, from other countries. It does bring in people from other states and there may be a few there from other countries too. But it will be on Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sunday 10 to 4 and you will see one of a kind items that people make. This is an artist craft show. So you'll find something that you can't live without. I will tell you that. And then like I say, on September 26th will be the color of fall car and truck show. And also that will start at 8 o' clock in the morning and usually it ends up by 3, my 3 o', clock, we're usually done. And then starting at 4 will be the FFA tractor pull. And it will be out at the fairgrounds. And of course everybody likes a tractor pull. [00:45:57] Speaker C: 4,500 people like the tractor pool last year and they made $90,000 off of it, according to Wesley Foster at the meeting last night. [00:46:05] Speaker B: Wow. Nothing wrong with that, right? [00:46:09] Speaker C: It goes back into their programs and that way the students that are in the FF program don't have to pay extra fees and stuff like that. It's a great win, win for all. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Also, I do want to mention that on the 5th of September will be the opening ceremony for the. Field of flags where they put up all the flags. They will be up for a week and their closing ceremony will be on the 11th July of of September at 6 o'. [00:46:40] Speaker E: Clock. [00:46:43] Speaker B: And of course everybody likes the flags and everything and then everybody wants to know about. Are we going to have anything for Halloween? Well, yes. The fifth annual Pumpkin Festival will be on the square from 10 to 2, and that will be on Halloween. So when's our first football game? [00:47:10] Speaker C: 21st travel down to Monterey High School football. [00:47:13] Speaker B: With that being said, I think this concludes our show. See you next month. [00:47:19] Speaker C: Bye, [00:47:30] Speaker B: Ra.