By Theresa Woodard, internal medicine practitioner at Harbor of Health Dr. Theresa Woodard says to avoid fad diets and instead develop a balanced, healthy eating plan. Remember when we were going to pay for our kids’ college by selling their Beanie Babies? Or when we wore acid-washed jeans and used lots of aerosol hairspray? [...]
Many people make a New Year’s Resolution to get healthy – but too often skip a crucial step: a checkup to assess their medical needs and find out what they really need to do to feel their best. Amanda Best, a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in internal medicine at Regional One Health’s East [...]
It’s the rare person who knows what they want to do with their life at 5 years old, but for Cecilia Dowsing-Adams, MD, that’s when she knew she wanted to be the sort of doctor who cares for every generation of the family, from newborn babies to senior citizens. Dr. Dowsing-Adams is realizing that [...]
For big-hearted Regional One Health employees, taking care of the health and wellbeing of Mid-South residents doesn’t stop when they’re off the clock. As the holiday season neared and the specter loomed of families having nothing on their table, approximately 75 volunteers gathered in the Regional One Health cafeteria to pack nutritious and hearty [...]
Regional One Health CEO Dr. Reginald Coopwood makes diversity a priority at all levels of his health care team. Regional One Health CEO Reginald Coopwood, MD recently spoke to The Daily Memphian about the importance of diversity in the workplace. Here at Regional One Health, it's something Dr. Coopwood doesn't just talk about. [...]
One might say that random circumstances and unexpected doors opening led Dr. Dhanireddy to both a life in medicine and to the specialty of neonatology. However, Dr. Dhanireddy believes a greater force led him to be right where he needed to be to find his passion for saving babies. Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy, M.D., oversees one [...]
"There are so many things from the business world we can adapt to medicine," Dr. Kito Lord, emergency medicine director at Regional One Health, said. It’s not every day that you see “MBA” after a physician’s name, but it’s a big part of the story that brought Kito Akin Lord, MD, MBA [...]
Lisa Schafer, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, Regional One Health chief operating officer and chief nursing officer (second from right), recently spoke on a Memphis Medical News roundtable discussion discussing key nursing issues with other chief nursing officers in the Memphis area. Lisa Cox Schafer, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, Regional One Health chief operating officer [...]
Ms. Jean Brooks began her nursing career at Regional One Health in July 1968, where she continues to work 50 years later. Taking care of more than 1,300 premature or critically ill newborns each year takes a lot of passion from a NICU team of nurses, physicians and other health care providers. [...]
Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses Nathan Crumley is an assistant nurse manager in Regional One Health’s Firefighters Burn Center. His motivation for a profession devoted to burn patients predates his desire for a nursing career. When Crumley was 18 [...]