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Methodist Offering Eluvia Drug-Eluting Vascular Stent

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:12 am by admin

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has begun offering the Eluvia Drug-Eluting Vascular Stent, a stent designed to restore blood flow in the peripheral arteries above the knee, in.... Read More

Qsource Awards Church Health $20,000 Partnership Grant

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:11 am by admin

Qsource, a nonprofit healthcare quality improvement and information technology consultancy, has awarded $20,000 to Church Health through its grant-funding program, Qsource Com.... Read More

Significant Increase in Flu-like Illness Expected in Shelby County

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:10 am by admin

The Shelby County Health Department expects a significant increase in the number of influenza-like illnesses in Shelby County this month as children return to school after the.... Read More

UTHSC Professor Receives Grant to Study Newborn Seizures

Jan 22, 2019 at 11:07 am by admin

Helena Parfenova, PhD, professor of Physiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been awarded a $2.1 million grant t.... Read More

Church Health Earns Special NCQA Designation

Jan 22, 2019 at 10:28 am by admin

Church Health has earned the designation of Patient-Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), an independent 501 nonprofit organization tha.... Read More

Healthcare Organizations Honor Saint Francis' Audrey Gregory

Jan 22, 2019 at 10:28 am by admin

Audrey Gregory, Market CEO of Saint Francis Healthcare, was honored recently by two healthcare organizations. Gregory, who has more than 25 years of healthcare leadership expe.... Read More

Memphis Healthcare Leaders Report Continued Growth & Expansion

Jan 02, 2019 at 10:46 am by admin

Reaching More Patients With More Services is Key The Memphis-area healthcare market continues to experience steady growth - both physically with new facilities and technologic.... Read More

Who's Getting Healthcare Right?

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:58 am by admin

Healthgrades Releases 2019 Hospital Quality Rankings For 20 years, Healthgrades has reviewed hospital quality and released an annual analysis of performance across a number of.... Read More

Eric Gibson Helps Practices Take Good Care of Business

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:54 am by admin

"Physician, heal thyself" might not be such great advice when it comes to addressing the ailments of medical practices, it seems. Eric Gibson, Principal/CFO of ClearlyMD, LLC,.... Read More

Doctor Followed Her Passion to a Psychiatry Career

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:49 am by admin

For Dr. Shubi Mukatira, 'It's a Privilege to Work as a Healer' When Shubi Razdan Mukatira was a computer science major at Purdue University and applying to medica.... Read More

Pillar Procedure Helping Treat Sleep Apnea

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:42 am by admin

Dr. M. Boyd Gillespie Finds Success in Reducing Snoring A Memphis physician is using a snoring procedure that he has found to be successful in treating patients with sleep apn.... Read More

West Memphis Prepares To Open New Hospital

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:33 am by admin

Facility May Lessen Pressure on Memphis ERs For the first time in four years, Crittenden County, Arkansas, and its population of about 51,000, will have a hospital when its n.... Read More

Income Protection Vital for Medical Professionals

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:22 am by admin

Wages for those in the medical field, particularly physicians, are among the highest of all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So, whatever reason you c.... Read More

St. Jude Patients' Artwork Featured On Green Giant Products

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:13 am by admin

Packaging Recognizes Childhood Cancer Awareness Month The artwork of two young patients from St. Jude Children's Hospital will be featured on one million bags of limited edit.... Read More

VA Memphis Chief Suggests Looking at the Improvements

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:11 am by admin

David K. Dunning drew bell curves on a legal pad as he patiently tried to explain the Hospital Star ratings released by the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, the rati.... Read More