To manage her growing family and full-time job, Tracy has to get up pretty early in the morning. It seems like that’s a trait that must run in her family.

All three of her young children, Austin, Taylor and Cooper, were born early. In fact, she began having labor pains as early as 23 weeks. Fortunately, her OB/Gyn and the staff at Her Place knew exactly how to help her.

They used specialized medications, bed-rest and careful monitoring to help Tracy delay giving birth until it was safe both for her and her babies. During this time, they were always available should she have a question or an early labor pain. It was never too early or too late to call.

And when her babies arrived, they were as healthy and beautiful as they were early.



Charlene and her sister, Diane, have a special relationship. Not only with each other, but also with the Regional Medical Center.

Over the past few years, they’ve each had similar surgeries, all performed by the same surgeon at the Regional Medical Center. First, Charlene had her gall bladder removed, after physicians discovered it was dangerously racked with stones.

When Charlene’ sister developed her own polyps in her intestine, surgeons at the Regional Medical Center spent hours painstakingly excising the tumors while preserving her digestive tract and negating the need for a colostomy.

As the surgical unit secretary at the Regional Medical Center, Charlene sees her family’s surgeon nearly every day. And every day it fills her with a new appreciation for her life – and family.



Alleyah schedules patient appointments at the Regional Medical Center. She trains employees and volunteers on the patient-scheduling system. You could say that planning is her life.

But when it came to the birth of her daughter, Kiersten, nothing went according to plan.

She spent 27 hours in labor, but simply couldn’t deliver. So, her doctor decided it was time for a c-section and moved her to one of the special surgical suites at Her Place, reserved just for that purpose.

In no time she was holding her perfect new baby, surrounded by her loving family and friends.

While having her baby didn’t go according to schedule, she can’t wait to have another. And she can’t stop talking about all of the love and attention she received during her longer-than-scheduled stay at Her Place.
Laura was getting ready to head to Florida for a family vacation. So when she came down with what seemed like indigestion, she didn’t let it dampen her spirits. When it was still getting worse three days later, she knew it was time to see her doctor.

He took one look at her and rushed her to the emergency department at the Regional Medical Center.

She was referred for emergency surgery where surgeons removed nearly a foot of her small intestines, potentially saving her life.

Sixteen days later, she was well enough to leave the hospital. But as good as it felt to go home, it was even better when she finally made it on that family vacation – four months later and on the mend.
When Barbara’s doctors performed her colonoscopy, they expected to find some swelling. Instead, what they found was stage IV colorectal cancer.

Faced with such an advanced tumor, her doctors had to act fast. They sent her for surgery at the Regional Medical Center. During her operation, when Barbara’s surgeons could better see the extent of the damage, they decided to remove both the tumor and the affected area. That decision may very well have saved her life.

Later, when her husband, Horace, was diagnosed with his own stage IV colon cancer, Barbara and her husband made an important decision of their own - to trust his care to the same doctors who had helped Barbara eight years earlier.

Again, the surgeons skillfully removed the cancer and sent Horace to the Mabry Center for Cancer Care for chemotherapy. With Horace back to his old self, they know they made the right decision.