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Johnson County, Tennessee Each day, Johnson County receives the first rays of sunshine in Tennessee. Traveling around beautiful Watauga Lake, Johnson County is approximately a one- hour drive from Johnson City. Mountain City is the largest town in Johnson County and the highest town in Tennessee. Other communities in Johnson County include Butler (“the town that wouldn’t drown”), Trade (the oldest community in Tennessee), Laurel Bloomery (home of the Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention), and Shady Valley (location of the unique Southern Appalachian Mountain Bog habitat). Besides having natural beauty and historical significance, Mountain City offers many opportunities for students to explore the wide spectrum of rural health care throughout the life cycle:

• The Johnson County Community Hospital is the smallest hospital in Tennessee with two in-patient beds. However, the hospital offers a full range of health services from the Johnson County Medical Group, ETSU College of Nursing’s Mountain City Extended Hours Center, assorted specialty clinics, and the Emergency Room with access via air to trauma centers in Johnson City & Boone, NC.
• The Johnson County Health Department
• The Northeast Correctional Complex
• Mountain City Medical Center as well as several physicians in private practice
• Mountain City Care & Rehabilitation Center
• Blue Ridge Senior Living
• Johnson County School System which includes one high school, one middle school and five elementary schools.

For more information, contact Linda Hipple at hipple@etsu.edu 

Rogersville, Tennessee The Rogersville Academic Center, located at 948 West Broadway, is the home to Rural Primary Care Track students in their first three years of medical school at Quillen College of Medicine.  Rogersville is a small community located about 50 miles south of ETSU.   It began in 1994 as the “Kellogg Program” and has continued providing “hands-on” education to medical students in Rogersville, TN.  The purpose of the program is to provide clinical and community-based education.   Two doctors from Rogersville are the assistant professors for these medical students, Dr. Jose Velasco and Dr. Mark Dalle-Ave.  For more information, contact the coordinator, Jeanie Parrott at parrotsh@etsu.edu