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Gordon Lintz

President and Chief Administrative Officer

Morristown-Hamblen and Claiborne

Morristown, TN and Tazewell, TN

Mr. Lintz has been the president and chief administrative officer of Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System, a member of Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health, since 2012. He oversees the 167-bed facility, which has supported its local eight counties in East Tennessee for 125 years. He is committed to improving access to high-quality healthcare and recruiting skilled primary and specialty physicians to the area. Under his guidance, the system has seen improvements in patient safety, including reductions in the harm index. Mr. Lintz also played a key role in overseeing the construction of Morristown-Hamblen West, a new outpatient healthcare facility that opened in the summer of 2023. He is involved in bringing new technologies to the community as well, such as robotic technology for knee replacements, an updated computerized tomography imaging scanner and new state-of-the-art angiography equipment. He also became president and chief administrative officer of Covenant Health Claiborne in August 2024.

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