{"entity":{"id":"covenant-health-proton-center","kind":"institution","name":"Covenant Health Proton Center","aka":["Thompson Proton Center","Provision CARES Proton Therapy Center Knoxville"],"tldr":"A proton therapy centre in West Knoxville, Tennessee, bought by Covenant Health in 2022 from Provision CARES and run as part of its Thompson Cancer Survival Center.","summary":"Covenant Health announced on 19 July 2022 that it had bought the Provision CARES Proton Therapy Center in Knoxville, renamed it Covenant Health Proton Center, kept its staff, and made it part of the cancer services of Thompson Cancer Survival Center and the Covenant Cancer Network. The 2026 brochure lists brain and spine, gastrointestinal and oesophageal, breast, head and neck, lung, prostate and paediatric cancers, lymphoma and re-irradiation among the cancers treated, and states ASTRO APEx accreditation. Address: 6450 Provision Cares Way, Knoxville, Tennessee 37909.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Covenant Health announces Covenant Health Proton Center (19 July 2022)","url":"https://www.covenanthealth.com/blog/thompson-proton-center-announcement/"},{"label":"Covenant Health Proton Center brochure (2026, PDF)","url":"https://www.covenanthealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/0405-1738-CH-Proton-Center-General-Trifold-Brochure-.pdf"},{"label":"National Association for Proton Therapy: Find a Center","url":"http://proton-therapy.org/findacenter/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["proton-therapy"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["The 2022 release said the centre was one of 40 US proton facilities at the time; that count is the operator's and is not repeated as current.","The alias Thompson Proton Center is taken from the address of Covenant's announcement (/thompson-proton-center-announcement/); the release text itself uses Covenant Health Proton Center, which is the name used here."],"city":"Knoxville","country":"US","lat":35.901,"lng":-84.121,"institutionType":"hospital","programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/covenant-health-proton-center/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"proton-therapy","kind":"technology","name":"Proton therapy","route":"/technologies/proton-therapy/"}]}}