How One Elvis Fan's Cookbook Has Raised Donations Each August, 81-year-old Wilma Wooten loads up the car with her daughter Melanie and makes the 650-mile drive from her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Memphis for Elvis Week. Odds are, you’ve seen her at some point, selling t-shirts and taking donations outside of the [...]
How the Regional One Health Trauma Center Saved One Man’s Life On April 10, 2010, while Jennifer and Steve Helffrich were spending a typical weekend with friends doing what they love — jumping out of airplanes — the unthinkable happened. Steve may not remember spinning out of control and falling some 14,000 feet to the ground when [...]
Traumatic Brain Injury Service Helps With Patient Comebacks When Mary Alice Snowden started her day on January 23, 2014, she had no idea her life was about to be turned upside down. Just minutes after picking up her two children from preschool, they were involved in a serious car accident. Miraculously, her children were [...]
Funding Research Leads to World-Class Care Orthopedics is just one example of the Trauma Center’s impact on trauma medicine nationally. Orthopedic surgeons perform life-saving procedures that can include repair of a neck fracture, broken limbs, dislocations and many other traumatic injuries. Because of this tremendous impact, Regional One Health Foundation provided funding for Dr. John Weinlein, a leading orthopedic surgeon at Campbell Clinic and [...]
The Elvis Presley Trauma Center, designated as a Level 1 Trauma Center in the states of Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas has saved tens of thousands of lives in its 32 years. No two days are ever quite the same for Dr. Martin Croce, medical director of the Elvis Presley Trauma Center at Regional One [...]
How local CEO and family man, Kevin Adams’ cycling accident changed his opinion of Regional One Health In February 2013, Kevin Adams set off to do what he loved, bicycling with his friends from the CdV (Cirque du Vélos) Cycling Club. What started out as an ordinary bike ride through Shelby Farms, quickly took [...]
“Waking up was like being caught in a bad dream; only it wasn’t a dream,” Rick recalls today. Rick doesn’t remember October 10, 2007, and he’s thankful for that today. On the way home from work on that fateful Wednesday afternoon, Rick’s vehicle was hit by a 110-car train, which forced his [...]
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Services at Regional One Health offers support for survivors of brain injury and their caregivers. Whether you are a caregiver for someone in your family or you are just one of the many people who do too much during the holiday season, TBI Services offer these helpful tips to [...]
When a patient comes into the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, a team of healthcare professionals are ready and waiting for that arrival. But what if a patient is trapped in a vehicle and unable to be extricated? What if trauma care needed to begin at the scene? That was the situation when a call [...]
Wanda Gardner-Slater, Director of Spiritual Care at Regional One Health, was appointed by Governor Bill Haslam to the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Advisory Council. The Traumatic Brain Injury Program was established in May 1993 by the Tennessee General Assembly in order that the special needs of survivors of brain injuries and their families could be addressed. The [...]