About Us

In the rapidly changing field of medicine, Centennial Heart Cardiovascular Consultants stands out as a group committed to providing the very best in personal and individualized care while incorporating the very latest in technology and innovation. This new medical team, in collaboration with Centennial Medical Center and the TriStar Health System, is committed to providing improved quality of care by offering exciting avenues for innovation.

Dr. Thomas Frist Sr. started Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) with humble beginnings at what is now called Centennial Medical Center. As HCA's flagship hospital, it is no coincidence that Centennial was the first hospital in Tennessee to perform minimally invasive bypass in 1996, pioneer off-pump bypass surgery and use robotics in heart surgery. The Centennial Heart Center is one of only four hospitals from across all 173 HCA hospitals to be designated as a Cardiovascular Center of Excellence.

The first doctors of Centennial Heart Cardiovascular Consultants: Robert M. Wheatley, Tom Johnston, Chris Jones, Robert Myers, and Tom McRae, came to the TriStar System after nearly a decade of providing quality cardiovascular care to middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky as part of the St. Thomas Hospital Heart Institute. The move allowed Centennial Heart to offer full-service cardiovascular care - from invasive procedures such as coronary artery stenting, peripheral vascular intervention, pacemaker placement, and ablation of arrythmias - to the latest in non-invasive cardiology, such as echocardiograms, stress tests, CT angiography, and ambulatory heart rhythm monitoring.

Our goal is to provide our patients and referring physicians with personalized care, a concept that stands out in an otherwise complex and increasingly impersonal world. At Centennial Heart Cardiovascular Consultants, we aim every day to improve our patients' quality of life.