Mike Embrey is a retired police officer and now a trauma nurse, and with his son Kyle working as a cop in St. Louis and daughter Morgan as a NICU nurse, he gets asked all the time if he’s proud that both his children followed in his footsteps. But Mike and Morgan are quick [...]
Through the years, the partnership between Regional One Health and the March of Dimes has proven richly beneficial to both organizations – and, more importantly, to countless Mid-South families kept whole thanks to advancements in care for mothers and babies. March of Dimes Senior Development Manager Rosa Potts works closely with Regional One [...]
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 [...]
April 22-26 is The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Week, and at Regional One Health, we celebrate the event as reminder that the individuals seeking healing within the walls of the health care system are the reason we exist. Everything starts and ends with showing patients compassion and care, said Sheena Freeman and Summer Hardy, [...]
Gail Duncan remembers the procedure that saved her babies as something out of a sci-fi movie. The scary news. The rush to surgery. The parade of men and women in white lab coats. The laser aimed at her abdomen. Gail and Jeff Duncan are loving every minute with 4-year-old twins Gunner and Garrett, [...]
When neonatologist Parul Zaveri, MD moved to Memphis in 2016 to work in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Regional One Health, she faced the challenges of many young professionals: meeting like-minded friends, finding good childcare, getting the scoop on which restaurants are worth trying. Dr. Zaveri not only found a way to [...]
When Kanika Armour learned she was pregnant with her first baby, she had a lot of questions: what to expect, whether she was having a boy or girl, how to avoid an epidural or C-section. That’s natural for a first-time mom, and Kanika and husband Robert Sr. wanted the kind of personalized care that [...]
Every day is a chance to get better. This phrase sits on 18-year-old Abbie Glozier’s Facebook timeline, but it has much deeper meaning to her and her family than a simple social media post. Nearly two decades ago, Regional One Health’s NICU team welcomed first-born Abbie into the world. She weighed just a [...]
When serious chronic health problems forced Amanda Bass onto bedrest 19 weeks into her pregnancy and caused her to deliver son Owen at 26 weeks, the care she and her baby received at Regional One Health was nothing short of lifesaving. Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy, MD and his team at the Sheldon B. Korones Newborn [...]
On December 8, Hugh Michael Clark will celebrate his first birthday, marking a year filled with smiles, trips to the Memphis Zoo, almost all of his baby teeth coming in and some tentative first steps. Rebecca and Andrew Clark will celebrate their little boy, and something else as well – a moment of healing [...]