Dignitaries including Gov. Bill Lee were present as Alliance Healthcare Services celebrated a facility being built in Binghampton that will cover behavioral health, addiction, and walk-in help for children and families.
The festival will offer free blood pressure checks, vision screenings and Church Health will host an “Ask the Docs” station.
RSV is transmitted through respiratory droplets when a person coughs or sneezes, or through direct contact with a contaminated surface. It typically starts during the fall and peaks in the winter.
Plaintiffs here include three women who had high-risk pregnancies and were denied abortions at home.
The FDA says it’s confident in the safety and effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 vaccines and that the benefits outweigh their risks.
The product was listed as out-of-stock at all Memphis-area CVS stores, from Midtown to Whitehaven and Germantown and all but one Walgreens at 8046 Macon Road in Cordova.
If you’ve noticed Campbell Clinic sponsors pickleball events: it’s a strategic move to gather data and ultimately educate the public to prevent the growing number of pickleball injuries local orthopedic doctors are seeing.
At Methodist Le Bonheur’s Women’s & Children’s Pavilion, every day is Labor Day — to the tune of 4,400 new babies last year.
The grants come from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Tennessee Healthcare Resiliency Program, a statewide program to expand health care services.
The projects are part of the hospital’s Blue-Sky program, which encourages innovative ideas from employees.
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive the Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
Dr. Christina Rosenthal, a native of South Memphis, continues to garner national attention for her dedication to inspiring young people from historically marginalized communities to pursue careers in health care.
Through its first decade, Methodist Olive Branch Hospital has continued to grow, living up to the need that was anticipated when it opened.
The center is named in memory of Rachel Kay Stevens, an occupational student who dreamed of working with underserved children but who died shortly after beginning her training at UTHSC.
Though the numbers are going up, the amount of cases is lower than at previous times during the pandemic, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine said.
From the College of Medicine to the College of Pharmacy to the College of Dentistry, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has new leaders in several key positions.
Since April, the Mississippi Department of Health has granted burn center status to two hospitals. The Firefighters Burn Center at Regional One Health has been treating Mississippi burn patients since the state’s only burn center closed.
The clothes closet at Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett has existed unofficially for a couple of years, with emergency department staff bringing in clothing donations for the trauma patients they serve each day.
Regional One Health closed its Guthrie Primary Care Clinic July 31 and said it plans to close its Kirby Primary Care Clinic by the end of the year, citing a need to consolidate services.
For FedEx St Jude Championship pro-am participant Zach Thomson, a childhood brain tumor brought him to Memphis and eventually, it led to his love of golf.
Turner Construction began work on Le Bonheur’s 128,000-square-foot expansion in July 2021. It is expected to be completed early next year with hard-hat tours beginning in the coming months.
The YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South and the Greater Memphis Chamber are teaming up with a Florida-based company to open clinics at local Ys starting in 2024.
Dr. Scott Strome was the face of much of UTHSC’s community outreach during the pandemic, including the large public testing site it created and staffed at Tiger Lane.
To address the nationwide nursing shortage and increase diversity in the nursing profession, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing has doubled its number of partner schools in the region.
Chris Locke’s tenure at St. Francis Hospital-Bartlett is expected to help in his role as executive director of the Greater Memphis Medical Device Council.