The Nutritional Care of your hospital stay is an important part of your recovery. Your diet will be ordered by your physician; just like your medicine, tests and other procedures. Our Dietary Department’s goal is to serve attractive, well-prepared, and nutritional meals to our patients. The Dietary Department will provide three meals per day plus snacks to meet the recommended dietary allowances for the patients. A variety of nutritional foods will be available for purchase by employees and visitors during the lunch and dinner meal times.

The emergency department operates 24 hours, 7 days a week with a physician on duty at all times. Registered nurses trained in advance Cardiac Life Support and Trauma Nurse Care Course. Also, we will have a Fast Track Clinic to speed up the service given to non-emergency patients. If we are unable to meet your needs we will transfer you with qualified personnel to a facility who can care for you.

This is one of the most important departments in the hospital. The Lab is responsible for conducting the many tests your physician will order. The information obtained from these tests is most valuable to your physician in prescribing the treatment you receive. The Laboratory at Knox County Hospital is inspected and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) once every two years. The Lab offers a complete range of diagnostic testing, most of which is performed on site with state-of-the-art equipment. Our Laboratory is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week (including holidays) with highly - trained Medical technologists, Medical Laboratory Technician's and phlebotomists. The Laboratory department is under the direct supervision of a certified pathologist.

The Radiology Department is an invaluable asset to our facility.  Our Board Certified Radiology and Nationally Registered Radiologic Technologists are trained in a wide variety of fields to help your physician to diagnose most any problem you may have.  We offer services such as Diagnostic Radiography and Computed Tomography (CT) 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  We also offer Fluoroscopy, Sonography, ACR Accredited and FDA Certified Mammography, Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Studies, Echocardiography, Transesophageal Echocardiography, and Nuclear Medicine Studies as well.  Please feel free to contact our office at (606) 546-5528 if you have any questions.

The Knox County Respiratory Therapy Department offers you fully certified staff 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Some of our services include:

• Arterial blood gases and analysis
• Oxygen Therapy
• Capillary Heel Stick
• Pulse Oximetry
• IPPB Therapy
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Chest Physiotherapy
• Incentive Spirometry
• Pulmonary Screen Testing
• Pulmonary Function Studies
• Peak Flow Measurements
• Electrocardiograms
• Intubation
• Extubation
• Capnography

These are some of the services that are performed daily here at our facility. We hope to make your stay here at Knox County a comfortable one.

Technology

The KCH Technology Department's mission is to provide information technology support services to Knox County Hospital departments. These services include providing systems analysis/design, computer hardware, application software, productivity software, telecommunications services, Intranet/Internet services, phone systems support and visioning for future technologies for the hospital. All services that are provided are considered critical to the operations of the hospital.