Grand Rounds

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

Rhodes Builds Impressive Med School Acceptance Record

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:05 am by admin

Rhodes College has one of the top medical school acceptance rates in the nation. Eighty-six percent of Rhodes graduates with a GPA greater than 3.4 and an MCAT score greater t.... Read More

Saint Francis' Keith McClure Inducted into Tenet Heroes Hall of Fame

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:04 am by admin

Keith McClure, an assistant nurse manager of surgery at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis, has been inducted into the Tenet Heroes 2018 Hall of Fame, Tenet's highest honor for it.... Read More

Smith & Nephew, HealthyHere Offer Mobile Medical Clinic

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:04 am by admin

Smith & Nephew has partnered with HealthyHere, a mobile medical clinic, to provide annual physicals, primary care, and follow-up care to employees. The HealthyHere mobile.... Read More

Solaster Health Officially Partners with Good Shepherd Pharmacy

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:02 am by admin

Good Shepherd, Solaster Health Form Partnership Nashville-based Solaster Health has begun a partnership with Good Shepherd Pharmacy, which is based in Memphis and has served t.... Read More

Dr. Edward Scott to Participate in New Clinical Trial

Nov 16, 2018 at 11:01 am by admin

Edward P. Scott, MD will participate in a new clinical trial by Dendreon, maker of Provenge, the first FDA-approved (2010) autologous cell immunotherapy for tumors. According.... Read More

Saint Francis Volunteer Program Adds Pet Therapy Dog

Oct 12, 2018 at 04:03 pm by admin

The volunteer program at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis has added 11 new volunteers, including one four-legged fur baby named Lily, and her handler, Richard Herbert. According.... Read More

UTHSC Researcher Receives $600,000 Grant for Chlamydia Study

Oct 12, 2018 at 04:02 pm by admin

John V. Cox, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, and associate dean in the College of Graduate Health Sciences at the U.... Read More

Gilda's Club to Hold Free All-Day Event on October 25

Oct 12, 2018 at 04:00 pm by admin

Gilda's Club Memphis will hold a charter ceremony at 10:30 am Thursday, October 25, at the First Tennessee Foundation Visitor Center at Shelby Farms Park. The event will be.... Read More

TMA to Hold Insurance Workshop on October 17

Oct 12, 2018 at 03:59 pm by admin

The Tennessee Medical Association, the state's largest professional organization for physicians, will hold its 38th annual Insurance Workshop in Memphis on Wednesday, October.... Read More