America’s Essential Hospitals awarded Regional One Health a 2019 Gage Award honorable mention for population health for its ONE Health initiative. ONE Health is a program focusing on improving the health and overall well-being of complex care patients. “When faced with some of the nation’s most pressing health care challenges, essential hospitals step up,” [...]
New partnerships are helping Regional One Health’s ONE Health complex care team achieve its mission of treating every individual not just as a patient seeking medical care but as a human being struggling with day-to-day needs. In May, United Healthcare awarded Regional One Health a $90,000 grant to launch a food pantry for patients [...]
Regional One Health’s Megan Williams, MSN, RN, CNL has proven herself to be an invaluable resource for vulnerable Memphians thanks to her role as Project Manager for the ONE Health complex care initiative. Now, she’s being honored nationally for her work. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the Commission on Nurse Certification [...]
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 [...]
The “power of empathy” generated by ONE Health, Regional One Health’s innovative complex care initiative, was featured on the cityCURRENT radio show in December. Megan Williams, ONE Health Project Manager Patrick Byrne, Regional One Health Foundation Development Director, and Megan Williams, ONE Health Project Manager, described how the initiative works with super-utilizers [...]
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 [...]
"Most people don't wake up saying, 'It's Thursday, I'm going to go out and over-utilize services.' They wake up and have a perceived need," said Susan Cooper, senior vice president and chief integration officer at Regional One Health. When Regional One Health launched ONE Health during summer 2017, it was an effort [...]
When Regional One Health launched ONE Health last summer, it was an effort to find a new concept in care that uses compassion and exceptional services to keep the most vulnerable residents of the Mid-South healthier and transform the community. Over the past six months, we’ve analyzed data to better understand patients and trends [...]
Camden Coalition representatives meet with Justin Griner, inpatient pharmacist at Regional One Health, to discuss ONE Health. Within health care, there is a patient population who utilizes high-cost services, like emergency department care, more than others. These “high utilizers” often lack social resources or find themselves with economic, education, addiction or housing [...]
I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH THE VISION FOR WHAT REGIONAL ONE HEALTH WILL BECOME, AND I WANTED TO BE A PART OF HELPING MAKE THE VISION A REALITY. Susan Cooper, chief integration officer and senior vice president of ambulatory services for Regional One Health, doesn’t think of people as patients; she thinks of [...]