21st Century Healthcare Integration

Apr 15, 2019 at 04:17 pm by admin

Panel Views Physician-Hospital Assimilation At the March meeting of the Mid-South MGMA, three healthcare leaders discussed Physician Hospital Integration. The discussion was.... Read More

Practices Don't Always Get a Second Chance

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:40 pm by admin

Proactive Patient Retention Can Pay Large Dividends Phyllis Blount remembers when her elderly mother was in the emergency room after a fall. Blount didn't call Dr. Vincent Smi.... Read More

Five Reasons Your Practice Is Losing Patients

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:38 pm by admin

It costs your hospital or practice about five times more to obtain a new patient than to keep an existing patient within your database. That's why patient retention matters.... Read More

UTHSC Chief Neurology Resident Plays Country Music's Most Famous Stage

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:33 pm by admin

William Mays, MD, Chief Neurology Resident at the University y of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC,) joined the ranks of musicians that include Johnny Cash, Hank William.... Read More

Severe Asthma Disparities

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:31 pm by admin

Study Finds Social Determinants Impact ED Usage Racial disparities between asthma prevalence, severity and morbidity have been well documented in numerous scholarly journals..... Read More

UTHSC Adopts Tuition Reduction for Out-of-State Students

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:22 pm by admin

Out-of-state students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will see reduced tuition rates for the coming academic year in the Colleges of Pharmacy an.... Read More

Record Numbers Attend Doctors' Day on the Hill

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:21 pm by admin

Doctors converged on Nashville in record numbers for their day on the Hill. More than 350 physicians and healthcare advocates gathered in Nashville in late March to bring the.... Read More

UTHSC Researcher Wins $1.4 Million NIH Grant

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:16 pm by admin

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's (UTHSC) Junling Wang, PhD, professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, has been awarded ove.... Read More

Two Physicians Join American Esoteric Laboratories

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:15 pm by admin

American Esoteric Laboratories, the Midsouth Division of Sonic Healthcare, has added two new physicians to its staff. Holly Hilsenbeck Pierce, MD, has joined American Esoteric.... Read More

St. Jude Honored for Cancer Research

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:15 pm by admin

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received the American Association for Cancer Research 2019 Team Science Award in Atlanta during the last month's opening ceremony of the.... Read More

Rhodes Senior Research Published in Medical Journal

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:11 pm by admin

Elizabeth Gaudio, a senior neuroscience major at Rhodes College and one of the first interns of the college's Le Bonheur Children's Hospital's Summer Plus Program, has jointly.... Read More

UTHSC's Glazer Awarded $100,000 SSAT Grant

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:04 pm by admin

Evan S. Glazer, MD, PhD, FACS, assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology and the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee.... Read More

Saint Francis Celebrates 15 Years of Weight Loss

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:02 pm by admin

Saint Francis Hospital this month marked the 15th anniversary of its Center for Surgical Weight Loss. During that time the hospital reports it had 6,600 weight loss surgeries.... Read More

UTHSC to Host African-American Alumni Reunion April 26-28

Apr 15, 2019 at 02:49 pm by admin

Since the day when Alvin Crawford, MD, became the first African-American to graduate from the University Of Tennessee Health Science Center College Of Medicine in 1964, 400 a.... Read More

Kosten Kick-It Event Scheduled April 7 at Shelby Farms

Mar 15, 2019 at 02:29 pm by admin

The ninth annual Kick-It 5K Run will be held at 1 pm Sunday, April 7 at Shelby Farms Park. The day's program include a one-mile family walk, food, live entertainment, team pho.... Read More