Focus on: Johnson City Medical Center Hospital Biomedical Engineering Department

The Biomedical Engineering Department at Johnson City Medical Center Hospital, Johnson City, Tennessee, is responsible for servicing over 2,500 pieces of equipment. The department also provides biomedical services, on a contract basis, to six area hospitals and ten physicians' offices. The department is extensively involved in pacemaker implants and participates in the hospital's system of equipment specification and selection. The department was established in 1974, as the region's first hospital-based biomedical engineering department with a staff of one. It has grown to a staff of five including two certified BMET's and one certified clinical engineer. Affiliation with a medical school brings new technology which challenges the department to future growth.