Monthly Archives: August 2017

Nurse profile: ‘Trauma’ Tommy embodies Regional One Health mission

Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses What’s in a name? For “Trauma” Tommy Willette, it’s life. Willette is a trauma nurse at the Regional One Health Elvis Presley Trauma Center. His role isn’t easy to define, although multitasker who thinks outside the box while [...]

2018-10-10T08:19:07-06:00August 24th, 2017|

Regional One Health creates nursing culture of success

Regional One Health is on the precipice of a new movement in how nursing leads better patient care. This nursing culture of success is led by Regional One Health’s people, from the nurses who have worked here for decades to the new team members who will join in the coming months. Regional One Health [...]

2018-10-10T08:19:08-06:00August 21st, 2017|

Regional One Health, medical district encourage pedestrian safety

The Be Aware campaign raises awareness of pedestrian safety and for everyone to look at their surroundings in the Medical District. Smart Growth America named Memphis the ninth-most dangerous metropolitan area for pedestrians in the U.S. last year. There were 34 fatal pedestrian accidents in Memphis in 2016, a stat the city [...]

2018-10-10T08:19:08-06:00August 16th, 2017|

UTROP welcomes trauma surgeons Filiberto, Lewis

UT Regional One Physicians is proud to introduce trauma surgeons Dr. Dina Filiberto and Dr. Richard Lewis to our practice. Drs. Filiberto and Lewis are part of the team of trauma surgeons at the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, which is designated as a Level 1 Trauma Center in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. It’s the only [...]

2018-10-10T08:15:18-06:00August 10th, 2017|

Patient Story: Nurse midwives provide special delivery

Photo Credit: JL Scott Photography When Sarah Irby returned to Memphis with her husband in 2015 after living in Nebraska for a couple of years, she recently had given birth to a son with the assistance of nurse midwives. She knew that if she had another child she wanted to again deliver [...]

2018-10-10T08:15:18-06:00August 8th, 2017|

UTROP Welcomes Dr. Matthew Gill

UT Regional One Physicians is proud to introduce anesthesiologist Dr. Matthew Gill to our practice. Dr. Gill attended medical school at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and completed his residency in anesthesiology at University of Washington in Seattle. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at University of Tennessee [...]

2018-10-10T08:15:18-06:00August 3rd, 2017|

Total Motion Release brings strength, balance to body

Occupational therapy addresses a person’s injuries or illnesses that make it more difficult to perform functions of daily life. Total Motion Release protocol. Regional One Health’s Center for Rehabilitative Medicine uses a new therapy called Total Motion Release that treats body imbalances by focusing on the good side of the body rather [...]

2018-10-10T08:19:08-06:00August 1st, 2017|