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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 Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care, or TIPQC, uses the shared knowledge of medical professionals [...]

2019-04-17T09:53:29-06:00April 24th, 2019|

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 One Health with the Opioid Light program after emergency medicine physician Chantay [...]

2019-04-01T11:10:07-06:00April 1st, 2019|

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 cradles an increasing number of healthcare and medical-treatment innovators who are working to overcome today’s predicament that [...]

2019-03-20T13:20:02-06:00February 13th, 2019|

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 know that he [...]

2019-02-18T08:21:05-06:00February 13th, 2019|

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 250-pound branch had struck him, fracturing [...]

2018-12-27T08:48:58-06:00January 4th, 2019|

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. "There were too many short-sighted decisions. He isn’t going to get better, but by investing on the front end, we could improve his quality of life.” - Susan Cooper For the patients in Regional One Health’s ONE [...]

2018-12-27T11:03:52-06:00December 21st, 2018|

ONE Health Update: New numbers highlight significant human and financial benefit of innovative complex care initiative

In its first eight months of enrolling patients, ONE Health, Regional One Health’s complex care initiative, has made remarkable strides among Memphis’s most vulnerable residents, giving hope to the hopeless and healing broken lives. ONE Health, led by Regional One Health Senior Vice President and Chief Integration Officer Susan Cooper and Project Manager Megan [...]

2018-12-31T15:30:32-06:00December 19th, 2018|

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 business concepts that have shaped the future of entire industries, Memphis is on the [...]

2020-05-26T12:45:15-06:00May 15th, 2018|

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. Fischer's preview of what attendees will [...]

2018-10-10T08:18:55-06:00February 6th, 2018|

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. Regional One Health performs more than 9,000 surgeries a year in [...]

2019-01-04T15:29:16-06:00November 25th, 2017|