The Collegedale Tomorrow Foundation is assisting the Samaritan Center in a food and funds drive titled “Together, we CAN make it through this.” On Saturday, April 4, and Sunday, April 5, from 8 a.m.-8 p.m., donations of canned or dry food items, toiletries, cash and checks written to the Samaritan Center will be accepted in front of The Commons, under the “For the Benefit and ... (click for more)

The Hamilton County Health Department’s Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) has been updated to allow more resources to be diverted to the COVID-19 response. The new lists of essential services and temporarily suspended services are below: The essential Health Department services still in operation are as follows. Please note, some of these services have changed from full ... (click for more)

A child under five has died of coronavirus in a Chattanooga hospital, county officials said Wednesday. Becky Barnes, Health Department administrator, said the child had underlying illnesses. She also said there are two new coronavirus cases in the county and both are under 18 years old. She said one is isolating at home and still exhibiting symptoms. Another has recovered ... (click for more)

Georgia state health officials said Wednesday that 138 people in the state have died of the coronavirus - up from 125 the day before. The cases have spiraled to 4,638 - up from the Tuesday report of 4,117. Officials said 952 have been hospitalized in Georgia with the deadly virus. Whitfield County remains at 10 cases with one death. Walker County, which long resisted ... (click for more)

Each day in Georgia, physicians, nurses and other health care providers go to work in our hospitals, nursing centers or private office practices to care for patients with a variety of health needs. This practice of medicine occurs 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and 365 days per year; because illnesses and injuries don’t take a holiday. Without thinking twice, patients visit ... (click for more)

The lush green of the trees and the bushes, the beautiful birds so full of song, my rose bush coming alive, and the fact that today it is not raining cannot dull my heavy heart as I stay in prayer for all of us in the midst of our world’s pandemic. Already there is no one who hasn’t been affected in some way by the fiercest storm any of us have ever known, and already I know we ... (click for more)