Good health care isn't hard to find in Mt. Juliet, as the area features facilities equipped to meet each patient's needs. With easy access to full-service hospitals, a heart care center and facilities offering long-term assistance, area residents can enjoy peace of mind.

University Medical Center

People want to be assured that the hospital near them is staffed with the best doctors and medical personnel available. They get that at University Medical Center in nearby Lebanon, accredited by the state of Tennessee as well as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The facility features 245 beds with more than 270 physicians on staff serving all of Wilson County. Big news came in 2009 when construction was completed on a four-story, $26 million patient tower. The 77,000-square-foot structure includes 60 new private patient rooms, and offers rehab and physical therapy, a surgical floor and an orthopedic center. The top floor is reserved for future growth.

UMC hospital offers emergency health-care services 24 hours a day along with inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services, intensive care and telemetry services, among several other specialties. 

Summit Medical Center

Almost 40 different medical specializations are covered at Summit Medical Center, just five miles away from Providence Marketplace in Mt. Juliet. The hospital offers a full array of services including emergency, medical, surgical, obstetric, oncology, psychiatric and diagnostic services, so patients know they are in capable hands.

Featuring the area’s first hospital-based, 64-slice CT scanner, Summit Medical Center also offers a cancer treatment program approved by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. This approval is given to only one in four hospitals that treat cancer, in recognition of the high quality of cancer care it provides.

Saint Thomas Heart

Open since 2008, Mt. Juliet's Saint Thomas Heart offers cardiology services to help relieve chest pain, coronary artery disease, cardiovascular disease and other ailments.

The facility is part of Tennessee's largest, private cardiology practice, which serves more than 130,000 heart patients in a 69-county region, spanning middle Tennessee and into southern Kentucky and northern Alabama.

Long-Term Care

Residents seeking long-term assistance can select from a variety of local facilities focused on providing top-notch care.

Providence Place of Mt. Juliet offers independent living for seniors, while the Gardens at Providence Place caters to people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Additionally, Maristone provides retirement living, catered assisted living and adult day services, and Carrick Glen Senior Living Community features an assisted living facility, as well as independent villas.