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New EEOC proposal says incentives have to be minor, not “100 bucks,” said Burch, Porter & Johnson lawyer Lisa Krupicka.
The freestanding location will feature eight patient rooms; CT scan, X-ray and ultrasound imaging technology; physician offices and a helipad.
Despite public health experts’ pleas to get vaccinated, health care workers are among a third of reluctant Americans wanting to wait to get a COVID-19 shot.
They were about as close as brothers can be, having been forced to share a bed or bedroom through childhood. COVID-19 took the life of Donnell Cobbins on Friday, Dec. 11. And Darrell Cobbins now knows the meaning of a stranger’s message to both of them when they were teenagers.
Part of the variable is the strain COVID-19 has placed on the funeral industry.
While selectively adding some elective surgeries, Methodist anticipates it will pause elective procedures again in anticipation for increased COVID-19 cases stemming from the Thanksgiving holiday.
On Monday, Nov. 30, Methodist had a record 219 COVID in-patients, up from 183 on Thanksgiving Day.
The trial of Quellor, a drug to tame inflammatory response in COVID-19, is for people already sick and with underlying conditions.
Drug gives a super supply of antibodies, more than the body can make on its own. “I think it’s well worth the small amount of risk it takes,” says Andy Shepherd.
The new technology gives doctors options for sick patients who are not candidates for open-heart surgery.
With hospitals 90% full in and right at the red range of capacity, leaders are working their plans for the COVID-19 surge.
Baptist will host the training program, with direction from IAC Associates and in collaboration with Meharry Medical College in Nashville.
Patricia Myles, 49, was breathing on her own after being treated with the experimental drug, remdesivir. She was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started.
We, the leaders of the health care systems in the Mid-South, recognize that we must continue to do better in reaching at-risk populations. We must develop more effective intervention strategies. We must make engaging with our system easier and more practical.
Variance exists in the tests themselves and there is no historical data on the percent of false reads clinicians should expect.
Early-detection tests have already been produced that could be quickly shipped to state health departments around the nation.
As a precaution, a staff member at University of Tennessee Health Science Center is on quarantine, at the university’s request, after traveling in China.
Were it not for matching American Diabetes Association T-shirts, it would be hard to distinguish between kids playing just to play and those learning how to manage their diabetes.
The Baptist Operation Outreach clinic operates inside the Catholic Charities of West Tennessee facility at 1325 Jefferson Avenue. Services include immunizations, behavioral health services and treatment for diseases and minor injuries. The clinic is also stocked with basic medications.
Workplace wellness used to mean "biggest loser" competitions and smoking cessation, but is evolving as mental health issues have become more apparent.
As community hospitals have closed in Haywood and Fayette counties, Baptist Memorial Health Care has been trying for years to get a certificate of need to build a freestanding emergency department in nearby Arlington.
Infant deaths from critical heart diseases have declined 33 percent in eight states where the American Heart Association was successful in passing laws to require mandatory testing for heart defects before newborns leave the hospital.
Breast cancer consortium to probe why more women in the Memphis metro are not getting annual mammograms, and reasons behind the wide mortality gap between white and black women.