There are 12 article(s) tagged Jason Little:

• September 2024

  • Baptist plans new $24M Fayette County hospital

    In 2015, Fayette County’s only hospital closed after averaging one inpatient a day. Baptist is counting on a population boom due to BlueOval City. 

    By Aisling Mäki September 18, 2024

• February 2024

  • Baptist opens new, three-state urgent care network

    Ten Baptist Urgent Care Centers opened their doors on Monday, Feb. 12, in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, and another clinic is scheduled to open in Mid-March. 

    By Aisling Mäki February 16, 2024

• November 2023

  • Urgent Care clinics partnering with Baptist

    A total of 10 Urgent Care clinics in three states will be renamed Baptist Urgent Care, and the merger will eventually add more walk-in clinics across the Mid-South. 

    By Aisling Mäki November 10, 2023

• January 2023

  • Baptist unveils new Arlington emergency department

    Baptist Memorial Health Care provided an early look Thursday at its new free-standing emergency department in Arlington near the Interstate 40 exit.

    By Michael Waddell January 05, 2023

• June 2022

  • Baptist announces new leadership at three Memphis hospitals

    Brad Parsons has been promoted at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, while Allison Bosse has been promoted at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women and the Baptist Children’s Hospital.

    By Aisling Mäki June 01, 2022

• September 2021

  • Baptist breaks ground on new emergency department in Arlington

    On Wednesday, September 15, Baptist hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the freestanding ER, the first of its kind in Shelby County. The hospital bought 80 acres at the site in 2003.

    By Michael Waddell September 15, 2021

• June 2021

  • Former Baptist chief Maury Bronstein dies at 95

    Dr. Maury Bronstein, a retired physician and former chief of staff at Baptist Medical Center, died Monday at age 95.

    By Daja E. Henry June 02, 2021

• November 2020

  • Opinion: Hospital CEOs urge residents to make good choices

    Letter from local hospital CEOs calls for residents to take personal responsibility for helping curb a growing surge of coronavirus cases in and around Shelby County.

    By Reginald Coopwood, Jason Little, Michael Ugwueke, Sally Deitch November 17, 2020

• July 2020

  • Heads of city’s 3 major hospitals discuss COVID surge readiness

    The CEOs of Regional One Health, Baptist Memorial Health Care, and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare talk on "Behind The Headlines" about their contingency plans for the surge in COVID-19 cases locally and the numbers they look at to activate surge plans.

    By Bill Dries July 17, 2020

• June 2020

  • Health care leaders: Racism is another pandemic

    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.

    By Reginald Coopwood, Jason Little, Michael Ugwueke June 04, 2020

• May 2020

  • Baptist, Methodist receive $100 million in stimulus, burning tens of millions more

    Both Methodist and Baptist hospital systems are coping with COVID-19 physically so far, but money is becoming a problem.

    By Jane Roberts May 19, 2020

• January 2020

  • Wheel tax increase squeaks through committee

    Members of the committee spent hours hearing from MATA supporters Wednesday and will vote Monday on a $20 wheel tax increase for the transit authority.

    By Linda A. Moore January 08, 2020