Regional One Health has helped make moms and babies healthier through a statewide effort – next, they’ll look to address opioid addiction
Regional One Health has helped a statewide organization tackle the biggest health threats facing moms and babies, from post-partum hemorrhage to weak lungs in premature newborns. Now, they’re looking to improve care for opioid-addicted women and their infants. The...
A small exposure to opioids can spark addiction – so Regional One Health is finding ways to treat pain without the risk
When a public health crisis emerges, it’s the emergency room physicians of American’s major urban hospitals who find themselves on the frontline. How they react can be crucial to saving lives and addressing the problem. That challenging work is underway at Regional...
At Regional One Health’s Center for Innovation, disruptive thinking is solving problems and improving care
Disruptive thinking. Invention. Mending what’s broken. Where would this world be today without entrepreneurs? Memphis is on the national map for entrepreneurism. We have business incubators and accelerators, music visionaries and artists in all forms. Memphis also...
Regional One Health’s ONE Health complex care initiative is a lifeline for the community and patients like Jamarcus Ankston
If you walked up upon Jamarcus Ankston, you would most likely find him smiling. He seems to smile a lot. He sways a little, too. You’d have no idea how much physical pain his smile is masking. You might not notice that patches of his body are burned. And, you wouldn’t...
After a devastating accident, doctors found a way to relieve Adam Willingham’s pain without opiates
Adam Willingham remembers working in his yard September 8, clearing a dead tree near where his wife parks; he’d worried it would fall and hurt her. He remembers his dad Jack yelling to him, then leaning over him, telling him not to move. Then, it gets foggy. A...
ONE Health Complex Care Team makes impact by getting to the heart of patient needs
This is part two of our One Health Update. Click here to read part one. For the patients in Regional One Health’s ONE Health complex care initiative, navigating the healthcare system can be more than just difficult. It can be impossible. Project Manager Megan...
ONE Health Update: New numbers highlight significant human and financial benefit of innovative complex care initiative
ONE Health, led by Regional One Health Senior Vice President and Chief Integration Officer Susan Cooper and Project Manager Megan Williams, has served 101 people since April 1 of this year. Seventy-six remain active and 25 people have graduated from the program. For...
A Gateway Into Our Community: Teaching
Clinical teaching and learning lead to community building in Memphis. Memphis is a place where many aspiring professionals find the inspiration and resources to hone their craft. Whether it’s our distinct musical sound, our culinary feats and inventions or our...
Sign up for Stop the Bleed Course
Did you know stopping a bleed can save a life? One person can make a difference. Join the Elvis Presley Trauma Center team at this city-wide training course to learn what you can do to help save lives in an emergency situation. Click here to register. Watch Dr....
Donors & Surgeons Saving Patients
Thanks to hundreds of donors at our 2017 ONE Night Gala, Regional One Health is introducing technology to the operating room that will improve our surgical procedures. Efficiencies matter in operating rooms because time matters. You can bleed to death in 20 seconds....