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CLARKSVILLE, TN − Herzing University, an accredited, private nonprofit institution offering career-focused degree programs, announced this week it is opening a campus in Clarksville, its 12th nationwide.

Herzing is moving into the former location of Hussian College, also former home of Daymar College, at 2691 Trenton Road. It will serve as a satellite location of Herzing’s Nashville campus and will focus on nursing and healthcare education, offering a mix of on-campus, hybrid and online programs, according to a news release.

The announcement came May 29, two weeks after Ascension Saint Thomas announced plans to build a full-service hospital in Clarksville, and one day before TriStar Health announced that it plans to do the same, marking a potential surge in the need for trained health care workers locally. Meanwhile, Austin Peay State University is nearing completion of its Health Professions Building, which opens for classes this fall.

“Clarksville is a vibrant, fast-growing community with a strong need for skilled healthcare professionals,” said Laurna Taylor, director of Campus Operations at Herzing University-Nashville, in the release. “This new campus allows us to offer hands-on training and flexible learning paths to students who are ready to make a difference right here in their own backyard.”

Enrollment for Herzing is now open, with online classes beginning in summer 2025. The physical campus will open in September. The building is being renovated to include state-of-the-industry simulation and nursing skills labs, the release said. The facility will feature advanced simulation labs with mannequins, including neonatal and adult multipurpose models, designed to replicate real-life clinical scenarios and provide students with immersive, hands-on training in a safe, supportive environment.

Herzing is celebrating its 60th anniversary, having been founded in 1965 by Henry and Suzanne Herzing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now led by their daughter, President Renée Herzing, the university has served over 50,000 graduates and currently supports 10,000 students across the country, the release said.

“We’re proud to open our Clarksville campus as part of our mission to expand access to career-focused education, particularly in healthcare,” said Renée Herzing, President of Herzing University. “With its growing demand for skilled healthcare professionals and a diverse population of nontraditional students, Clarksville is exactly the kind of community where we can make a meaningful impact.”

The Clarksville campus will offer a range of nursing programs, including Practical Nursing (PN), ASN, ASN Bridges, BSN, and BSN Bridges, with students able to complete coursework either online or at the Nashville campus. Additional online programs span healthcare, behavioral health, IT, business and legal studies.

For more information, visit the Herzing University website.

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Update, June 5: Tennova said they hope for the Certificate of Need change request process to be complete by mid-July. That would be more than a week before the CON hearings for the other two hospitals.

Previously:

CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – In the wake of two new hospital announcements in Montgomery County in recent weeks, Tennova Healthcare-Clarksville has now announced a plan to change the location for a planned satellite hospital from north Clarksville to a spot next to its current ER in Sango.

Tennova’s plan, announced in 2021, had been for a 12-inpatient bed satellite hospital with a 14-bay ER to be built on Trenton Road near 101st Airborne Division Parkway. The new plan, announced Wednesday, is to place that facility instead on a 10-acre property immediately adjacent to the current Tennova ER on Highway 76, just east of Exit 11.

In recent weeks, TriStar and Ascension Saint Thomas have both announced plans to build full-service hospitals with ERs in Clarksville, pending the approval of state Certificates of Need. However, Tennova has already acquired a Certificate of Need (CON) and is shifting gears to change the location.

The Sango location is also directly next to the planned site for the Ascension Saint Thomas location.

This is a path they have been actively pursuing “well before Ascension and HCA/TriStar Health announced their intent to apply for CONs for new hospital facilities in Clarksville,” according to a news release.

According to the initial Dec. 15, 2021, announcement, Tennova’s satellite hospital would “provide acute inpatient medical and surgical services” with construction expected to begin in the third quarter of 2022, and a projected opening in early 2024. That never happened.

“As of today, we pulled the Certificate of Need that was fully approved by the state of Tennessee to arrange the new hospital,” Drew Emery, chief executive officer of Tennova Healthcare-Clarksville, said during a Clarksville Rotary Club meeting on Wednesday.

“That Certificate of Need was received a few years back, and in the coming days, we’re in the process of filing a relocation project to remove it from the current name to the different parcel of land we have closer to our freestanding Emergency Department.”

During the meeting, Emery welcomed questions, and one Rotary Club member asked why Tennova was making this decision now if they had the approval for several years.

Emery explained the project was designed and ready to go, but, “As I’m sure construction costs for all of your business are going up crazy, the project is essentially double the cost for the same footprint.”

According to Emery, since he started working at Tennova 2 1/2 years ago, Tennova has been working on redesigning the new building in order to meet the needs of their patients and services provided, which is only one part of the delay.

The other reason is the strict rules and regulations that go into hospital construction. “We are heavily, heavily, heavily regulated on just the care we provide in our buildings, and so all of the construction process takes significant time.” Some of the projects Tennova has taken on have taken 12 weeks for something people may do on their homes in three weeks because of all the additional state guidelines.

Another member asked if TriStar’s application for a CON gets approved, would it impact Tennova at all?

“Who knows?” Emery answered. “At the end of the day, we’ve been here for 71 years, we’re going to be here. We’re going to continue driving the services that the community needs and that we believe the community needs. We’re going to continue to care for everybody that walks through the door.”

In Wednesday’s news release, Tennova argued that Nashville-based healthcare systems may be more motivated to transfer patients to their larger facilities an hour away.

“The two newly proposed hospitals have a limited number of beds available and services that duplicate those offered at Tennova Healthcare-Clarksville,” the release said. “None of the proposals will increase availability of higher acuity care, such as trauma care or heart surgery, or needed services such as behavioral health.”

“Our fast-growing community will need more healthcare services in the future, and we believe Tennova Healthcare remains the best choice for expanding health facilities,” Emery said in the news release. “Through the skills of our team, we have a strong ability to deliver a wide range of services, including primary care, emergency care, maternity care, cardiac care, surgical care, orthopedic care and so much more – right here, at home.”

Clarksville Now has reached out to Tennova for the next steps in its CON change request.

The CON hearing for the Ascension Saint Thomas and TriStar requests will be Wednesday, July 23, at 9 a.m. at 425 N. Representative John Lewis Way, Senate Hearing Room I, Cordell Hull State Legislative Building, Nashville. The meeting is open to the public.

One of the most interesting attractions in the Clarksville, Tennessee area is the Historic Collinsville Pioneer Settlement, located about 20-minutes outside of Clarksville. Collinsville is an open air museum where visitors can take an audio tour, guided tour (groups of six or more), or just wander as they like on the property that's filled with 16 restored historical structures that are filled with authentic period furnishings that portray what life was like before and after the Civil War (from about 1840 to the turn of the century.) Now Collinsville is getting ready for Civil War Days, a series of special events set to take place June 13-15, 2025. Civil War Days will find Collinsville coming alive as reenactors portray soldiers, civilians and historical figures, offering a glimpse into the lives of those who lived through the conflict.

Collinsville is open on a seasonal basis and this year that runs from now through October 25. Anytime during the season visitors can explore things like the smokehouse, tobacco-drying house, cobbler's shop, loom house, church and schoolhouse and a wildlife center where taxidermy animals, including one very cute raccoon, are on display (see an arrowhead collection there too.) There's a very nice visitor's center, also housed in an historic building, and there are picnic tables throughout the property so visitors can relax between explorations. All of this will be augmented by a full slate of Civil War Days activities including battle reenactments on Saturday and Sunday, complete with cannon fire, a lantern lit nighttime tour, a ladies' tea on Saturday hosted by the Confederate Belles of Tennessee who will be dressed in period-appropriate outfits, and period encampments where visitors can interact with reenactors showcasing everyday life during the Civil War. Food, drink and souvenirs will be for sale during Civil War Days.

For more information about Historic Collinsville and Civil War Days go here.

Historic Collinsville is part of what the folks at Visit Clarksville represent; for ideas on other fun things to do in Clarksville go here.