UTHSC Health Hub opens in Uptown; goal is connecting people to care
A ribbon is cut outside the UTHSC Health Hub at 534 N. Second Street. The Health Hub, a UTHSC first, is a drop-in clinic of sorts focusing on obesity, hypertension and diabetes that the college of medicine hopes will become an entry point to primary care in underserved parts of the city. (Brad Vest/Special to Daily Memphian)
The UTHSC Health Hub is the first of what they hope will be a series of hubs in neighborhoods where access to medical care is low and chronic disease rates run high.
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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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