CHI Memorial hospitals and care sites throughout Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia will begin using the CommonSpirit Health name in January, the health system announced Nov. 3.
The name change coincides with the planned opening of the system's new hospital in Catoosa County, Georgia, on Jan. 11.
CHI Memorial’s three local hospitals will adopt the CommonSpirit brand while maintaining the "memorial" name: CommonSpirit- Memorial Hospital — Chattanooga, CommonSpirit — Memorial Hospital — Hixon, both in Tennessee; and the new CommonSpirit — Memorial Hospital — North Georgia.
"By formally adopting the CommonSpirit brand, CHI Memorial's more than 5,000 local team members, nurses, and physicians across three hospitals and 65 care sites will visually align with their parent organization," said a press release about the announcement. CommonSpirit has more than 2,300 care sites and 138 hospitals across 24 states.
"As we formally adopt the CommonSpirit name, we also recognize and respect the deep local connections and community trust that have been built over time through generations of interactions and experiences," said Janelle Reilly, CommonSpirit Health’s market president, Tennessee and Georgia. "We are simply uniting under one shared name to better reflect a connection to a larger national health system, but the local team and its dedication to this community are constant."
The CommonSpirit name is a combination of "common good" and "Holy Spirit," and reflects the shared values of the hospitals and health systems, including CHI Memorial, that formed CommonSpirit in 2019.
Communities will begin to see the CommonSpirit name and logo in local facilities in the coming months.
The new CommonSpirit — Memorial Hospital — North Georgia will have 64 inpatient beds, an intensive care unit, a full-service emergency department with 24 beds, five operating rooms, two endoscopy suites, comprehensive imaging services, non-invasive cardiac imaging and a laboratory.