Sew long: Germantown, Southaven Joann craft stores to close
Joann Fabric & Crafts announced it will close its 800 stores nationwide.
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Business Aldi to open Union Avenue store this spring
Grab your quarter; Memphis’ 14th Aldi will open in the Medical District, part of the neighborhood’s recent burst of growth.
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Health Care Beyond the wheelchair: Local clinic helps bridge accessibility gap
At the Seating and Positioning Clinic in Arlington, workers improve the quality of life by building custom-made wheelchairs and positioning devices for Tennesseans of all ages with a range of disabilities.
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Financial Services Truist Bank names new Memphis president
Truist said Jean Morton, its new Memphis market president, will harness her more than 30 years of experience to help grow the bank’s local presence.
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Health Care Health Department pushes for HIV testing in hospital ERs
The Shelby County Health Department recommends local hospitals adopt the “opt-out” approach, in which an HIV test will be part of a patient’s medical visit unless they decline.
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Business Panelists will share stories — and listen — at Women and Business Seminar
MLGW’s Ursula Madden, Junior Achievement’s Leigh Mansberg and former longtime Overton Park Executive Director Tina Sullivan will lead a conversation on women in business at The Daily Memphian’s Feb. 27 seminar at Memphis Botanic Garden.
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Education ‘Excellence and achievement’: UTHSC earns prestigious research designation
Memphis is now one of six cities nationwide that is home to two public universities with the Carnegie R1 designation.
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Health Care ‘Black Men in White Coats’ event inspires medicine and science careers
Hundreds of Mid-South students got to meet medical and science professionals at the Black Men in White Coats event at Baptist Health Sciences University in the Memphis Medical District.
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Financial Services Orion, Financial Federal deal is dead
Orion Federal Credit Union said in 2021 it would acquire a Memphis-based community bank, but Financial Federal CEO Kent Wunderlich said the acquisition was “mutually terminated.”
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Health CareMedical District Park’s reinvention includes new permanent sculpture
Once at the center of a controversy over a statue honoring a Confederate Civil War general, the recently renamed Medical District Park is reinventing itself with a new public art installation that honors the community’s caregivers.
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Health Care Memphis-based medevac adds life-saving treatment on the fly
Hospital Wing, which provides helicopters across the region for emergency dispatch, is taking the next step to provide critical care when “every minute matters.”
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Financial Services Local credit union names new CEO
Chartered in 1961, Shelby County Federal Credit Union serves 10,000 local members in two counties.
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Financial ServicesOrion credit union has a new leader, and she’s focused on growth
Ashley McDurmon might have become the CEO and president of Orion Federal Credit Union in January, but her understanding of its culture dates back more than a decade.
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Spirit of Memphis Life after death: Heart recipients meet families of people who saved their lives
In a tearful Valentine’s Day event, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis brought together heart-transplant recipients and their donors’ families so they could hear their loved one’s heart beat again.
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Neighborhoods $34M mental health crisis center unveiled in Binghampton
After the ribbon-cutting for the adult wellness crisis center, Alliance Healthcare Services broke ground on the neighboring $11 million children’s wellness center.
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Millington Campbell Clinic expanding its footprint with Millington clinic
“The Millington community has just kind of been on our radar for a long time,” Campbell Clinic’s CEO said. “We found the right development, and we’re able to get it done. And we’re excited about it.”
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Health Care St. Jude, WHO partner to get cancer meds to sick children around the world
St. Jude and WHO said they’d begun delivering lifesaving medicines for children with cancer in pilot countries Mongolia and Uzbekistan, with the next shipments planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal and Zambia.
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Health Care Millington will be home to Tennessee’s largest VA outpatient clinic
The new clinic for veterans in Millington will be the tenth community-based outpatient clinic under the Memphis VA Healthcare System umbrella, which covers 53 counties in West Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and North Mississippi.
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Health Care Inaugural UTHSC chair departs board to standing ovation
Former small-town dentist Dr. Phil Wenk was the CEO of Delta Dental, the only dentist to be inducted into the Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame and led the UTHSC advisory board since its inception.
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Health CareCaring for the caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients
When Zelda Fitzgerald Hill’s mother struggled to care for his father who had Alzheimer’s disease, he and his sisters stepped in to divvy responsibilities and provide their mother with support.
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Real EstateRegional One Health build could bring new life to Downtown ‘gateway’
Regional One Health’s new billion-dollar hospital, which will be built on The Commercial Appeal’s former campus, could forge a new gateway to Downtown and help generate more business and residential activity.
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FoodDry run: How local and national attitudes toward alcohol are changing
As the U.S. surgeon general raises the alarm about the link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk, the “sober curious” are seeing the benefits of abstaining.
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Health Care School district, Health Department team up to battle exploding HIV rate
A new agreement will allow Shelby County Health Department to provide screenings, treatment, preventative care and education to public middle and high school students, whose HIV infection rates are rising at an alarming rate.
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Business Innovate Xcelerate: Program to boost Memphis entrepreneurs
The two-year program comes with legal and accounting support, marketing guidance and access to corporate buyers.
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Business Memphis businessman with storied career honored with legacy award
Howard Robertson was honored Thursday, Jan. 23, with the Legacy Achievement Award for a career that has spanned more than half a century.
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