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Business Partners with Medicine to Encourage Healthier Community
Tackling the comprehensive issues of obesity is not a task for healthcare alone.
In a high-risk city that is constantly rated as one of the unhealthiest in media reports, it takes the effort of the entire community to make significant progress.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Declining Reimbursements Will Challenge Hospitals and Practices in 2008
While this is far from a news flash, it’s never been more true: hospitals and medical practices are facing increasing costs and declining reimbursements. Leaders of both the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) and the Tennessee chapter of the Medical Group Management Association (TMGMA) believe patient access to healthcare could suffer as a result.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Multiplying neurons – This image shows two horizontal neurons that were derived from a single neuron by modulating the Rb family of tumor suppressor gene. PHOTO COURTESY ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL |
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Genetic Study Makes Groundbreaking Discovery in Neurobiology
Researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have recently published a study which reveals the genes responsible for retinoblastoma have the ability to mutate in way never before thought possible.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Grand Rounds January 2008
Methodist Sleep Neurologist Published in National Journal
Methodist South Hospital Offers 30-minute Emergency Room Guarantee In Midst Of $350,000 Renovation
UT Medical Group Adds Gastroenterology Specialists
Education Deans Named at the UT Health Science Center College of Medicine
State Approves Methodist’s Request to Build Hospice Residence
New Book In Evolving Field Of Interventional Spine Care Includes Chapter By Campbell Clinic Physician
Baptist Collierville Offers Minimally Invasive Option for Back Surgery
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Names Assistant Administrator
West Tennessee Healthcare Announces Formation of OB/GYN Services
West Tennessee Rehabilitation Center Awarded Three-Year CARF Accreditation
Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute Marks Two Milestones in 2007
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Medicare Advantage Plans Causing Confusion for Seniors
In physicians’ offices across the city, Medicare patients are receiving a rude awakening when they pull out their insurance cards for the co-pay.
They’re finding out they signed up for a Medicare Advantage plan that doesn’t include their physician, and the exam they just received will be an out-of-pocket charge.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
New Proof of the Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke is dangerous.
While not exactly breaking news, there is now new proof that adds weight to the body of evidence indicating those exposed to other’s smoke are at increased risk for harm.
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Physician Spotlight: Dr. James Bailey
Several years ago, Dr. James Bailey was among leaders in Memphis who set out to reverse the city’s upward trend in diabetes and obesity. They posed a deadline which, as it turns out, has crept up rather quickly: 2008.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
TMA Focuses on Legislation to Stem Meritless Malpractice Lawsuits
Medical liability reform, coupled with arresting the number of frivolous lawsuits filed against physicians, is again a top agenda item for the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) in 2008. As for another organization representing clinical practitioners, the Tennessee Nurses Association (TNA), educating the next generation of nurses is also high priority.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
UT College of Pharmacy Breaks Ground
On Friday, Dec. 7, the University of Tennessee (UT) College of Pharmacy began what one alumnus called “another chapter in the continuation of a dream.”
More than 250 well-wishers crowded into the heated tent on a chilly Pearl Harbor Day morning as UT president John Petersen and College of Pharmacy dean Dick Gourley led the groundbreaking for a new pharmacy building on the Memphis campus.
SHEILA CHAMPLIN |
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