Stork 901 program to bring pregnancy care on wheels to rural West Tennessee
Soon-to-be mother Nortosha Hudson receives an ultrasound from Dr. Kerri Brackney and sonographer Matt Fletcher at Regional One Health Center for High-Risk Pregnancy. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Regional One Health has long been a lifeline for residents of rural West Tennessee who need specialized health care unavailable in their own communities.
That includes patients with high-risk pregnancies, who must travel back and forth to Memphis to receive care at the hospital’s Center for High Risk Pregnancy.
“A lot of times you need subspecialty care to really help optimize the conditions in pregnancy, and usually that’s with a maternal fetal medicine doctor,” said Dr. Kerri Brackney, who specializes in maternal fetal medicine at Regional One Health.
With access to care so limited for women with high-risk pregnancies, Regional One Health is launching Stork 901, which will begin next Spring.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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