Tanner Medical Center/ Villa Rica

Tanner Health System is a non-profit regional healthcare provider serving west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner facilities include the 200-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, the 55-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, the 25-bed critical access Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, the 15-bed Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama in Wedowee and the 92-bed behavioral health facility Willowbrooke at Tanner.

Other Tanner services include Cardio-Thoracic Surgical services, Neuro-Surgical services, Cancer Care, Heart Care, Urgent Care, Women’s  and Children Care, Occupational Health, Center for Sleep Disorders, Advanced Wound Center, Pain Management Center, Diagnostic Imaging, Home Health & Hospice Care and more.

Mission: To provide a continuum of quality healthcare services within our resource capabilities. To serve as a leader in a collaborative effort with the community to provide health education, support services and care for all of our citizens.

Tanner Health System is a nonprofit regional health system serving a nine-county area of west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner’s medical staff is comprised of more than 400 physicians representing 36 unique medical specialties.

As a nonprofit healthcare organization, Tanner does not operate for the benefit of shareholders, but rather for the good of the communities Tanner serves. Instead of dispersing earnings to shareholders, Tanner reinvests profits back into improving health care for communities in west Georgia and east Alabama in the form of expanded facilities, advanced technology, additional physicians and caregivers, emergency care, community outreach, educational programs and other related benefits. Tanner does not receive any local taxpayer dollars.

Other Tanner services include the Roy Richards, Sr. Cancer Center, Tanner Heart and Vascular Center, Tanner Breast Health, Tanner Occupational Health, Tanner Urgent Care, Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders, Tanner Pain Management Center, and more.

Tanner also operates Tanner Medical Group, one of metro Atlanta’s largest physician group practices as rated by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.  Tanner Medical Group is comprised of more than 40 medical practices located in Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Heard and Paulding counties in Georgia and Randolph County in Alabama representing over 260 providers.

Tanner Medical Group physicians offer a wide range of medical specialties, including interventional and non-interventional cardiology, family medicine, gastroenterology, general surgery, infectious diseases, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonary and critical care medicine, surgical breast care and vascular surgery.

Tanner Health System is governed by the Tanner Medical Center, Inc. Board of Directors, chaired by Daniel Jackson. The president and CEO of Tanner Health System is Loy M. Howard.