A breakfast Thursday will benefit a network in Memphis that offers help with behavioral health issues. | April 20, 2016
State legislators approved a $12 million in aid for the upcoming expansion of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. | April 14, 2016
Business Q&A;
Mindfulness-based stress reduction is helping attack stress at a major Memphis health care provider. | April 12, 2016
The Memphis VA Medical Center will provide a new primary care location in Memphis. | April 05, 2016
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital CEO Dr. James Downing is named to a blue ribbon panel for Biden's national cancer moonshot. | April 04, 2016
The 65 Memphis veterinarians who own Animal Emergency Center on Summer approved in a split vote Thursday night selling the clinic to the only other after-hours clinic in Memphis, PetMed Emergency Center. | April 01, 2016
About 65 Memphis veterinarians jointly own Animal Emergency Center at 3767 Summer. They are to gather Thursday at Fogelman Executive Center at the University of Memphis to vote on whether to sell the clinic. | March 28, 2016
Federal officials provided some hope for Medicaid expansion advocates in states such as Tennessee and Mississippi. | March 28, 2016
The fund-raising arm of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has just purchased a 175,625-square-foot warehouse as the hospital continues buying property that surrounds its campus. | March 24, 2016
The nation's first stroke unit in a truck was rolled out in Memphis by the University of Tennessee.
| March 22, 2016
Business Q&A;
How soon Crittenden County gets a new hospital in West Memphis is a critical question for residents. | March 22, 2016
CEO of Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis and local Tenet Healthcare market to step down in May. | March 21, 2016
Health care clinics located at workplaces are the coming trend in Mempnis and America. | March 19, 2016
A Memphis hospital will cut its emergency room hours in half beginning April 18. | March 18, 2016
The West Cancer Center has promoted Candace Wilder to the position of chief operating officer, the Germantown-based center announced Tuesday. | March 15, 2016
A mammoth new mural in South Memphis is part of a local hospital’s campaign to encourage HIV-positive residents to keep taking their medicine to live healthy, long lives and cut the risk of transmitting the disease. | March 15, 2016
On Christmas Eve 2014, Julia Davis was riding with a friend in a black Infiniti in East Memphis when the car in front of them started to drive erratically. | March 12, 2016
Kevin Hammeran knows the inner workings of women's and children's hospitals not only as an administrator, but as a father. | March 10, 2016
Eleven Methodist Primary Care Practices have achieved a national stamp of approval for being ready to deliver in ways that health care reform demands. | March 08, 2016
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis trims 33 jobs, or 2.7 percent of its workforce. | March 07, 2016
As Methodist South's chief executive, Ugwueke took some unusual steps for a hospital administrator. | March 05, 2016
Baptist Memorial has tapped a New York hospital executive as the new CEO for its women's and children's hospitals in Memphis. | March 04, 2016
Medtronic prescribes fixes for its Memphis-based spine business. | March 01, 2016
A medical study of how text messaging and health coaching may help African Americans with uncontrolled diabetes will be launched in Memphis. | Feb. 26, 2016
Shorb will retire Dec. 31, advise the sprawling hospital network into 2017 and continue an active hand in Memphis civic affairs.
| Feb. 25, 2016
Officials say they could decide by summer whether to build a conference center in the Medical District or use a Downtown option. | Feb. 18, 2016
Business Q&A;
At age 90, a Memphis cardiologist has answers to how coronary care has changed in 50 years. | Feb. 16, 2016
UTHSC is moving beyond academia to speed research and produce “orphan” drugs in Memphis. | Feb. 13, 2016
Two faith-based Memphis primary care providers are opening clinics Tuesday in Raleigh-Frayser. | Feb. 08, 2016
Regional One Health has a new campus in East Memphis designed to lure more insured patients. | Feb. 06, 2016
Tennessee stands ready to help on Memphis’ next big Downtown project -- the proposed $1 billion St. Jude campus expansion into the Pinch District. | Feb. 03, 2016
Memphis-based Christ Community Health Services opens a clinic in underserved Raleigh. | Feb. 03, 2016
A Memphis company wins a patent for a potential treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. | Feb. 03, 2016
More than 1,000 people are expected to be in line by 4 a.m. when a free dental clinic opens temporarily in Memphis. | Jan. 30, 2016
The physician practice serving University of Tennessee College of Medicine faculty iin Memphis rebrands and resets. | Jan. 29, 2016
A decision to guarantee next-day replacement for surgical equipment helped lead Olympus to choose Bartlett for a medical equipment plant employing 280 at average pay of $55,000 per year. | Jan. 28, 2016
Its first birthday finds Baptist Memorial's children's hospital planning for growth. | Jan. 27, 2016
Business Q&A;
Add teamwork to the major reasons why heart attack survival rates have improved in Memphis and nationwide. | Jan. 26, 2016
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Hospital Association, a key supporter of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's unsuccessful effort to expand Medicaid in the state, is planning a new push to pass the measure once this year's presidential election is over. | Jan. 26, 2016
Temperature-controlled logistics services are a growth industry. Demand for the services is projected to grow more than 60 percent by 2020. | Jan. 20, 2016
The Memphis-based Southern College of Optometry has given its top job to its interim president. | Jan. 19, 2016
Despite the political climate, Memphis rallies for a nonpartisan push to revive Insure Tennessee. | Jan. 08, 2016
With the Jan. 31 deadline approaching, more than 236,000 Tennesseans have signed up for Obamacare coverage. | Jan. 07, 2016
With some signs of progess, a new year of health challenges arrives for Shelby County and Tennessee. | Jan. 06, 2016
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital plans an expansion adding up to 36 beds. | Dec. 21, 2015
Turner Construction will have to use some special construction methods to build the $275 million expansion announced last week by Methodist University Hospital. | Dec. 21, 2015
Crittenden County will ask voters to redirect a sales tax to build a new hospital operated by Baptist Memorial. | Dec. 18, 2015
A new tower straddling Eastmoreland Avenue and a 700-space parking garage are major parts of a $275 expansion plan announced Thursday for Methodist University Hospital. | Dec. 17, 2015
Supporting the expansion of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is among items on the Greater Memphis Chamber’s 2016 state legislative agenda.
| Dec. 16, 2015
Baptist Memorial Health Care names the leader of its electronic medical record roll out to an expanded role. | Dec. 14, 2015
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is now treating children at its new, $90 million proton therapy center. | Dec. 14, 2015
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center produced 162 graduates at its winter commencement in Memphis. | Dec. 11, 2015
Medtronic wins FDA approval to market its Infuse Bone Graft product for some new uses. | Dec. 11, 2015
A new grant will draft Memphis-area patients and their families to work with researchers and doctors to target cancer disparities. | Dec. 10, 2015
More than 88,000 Tennesseans choose Obamacare insurance plans as a Dec. 15 deadline approaches. | Dec. 09, 2015
Public documents show that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a building permit for its planned data center just east of its campus, at 650 St. Jude Place. | Dec. 08, 2015
Greater Memphis is a medical hub, a place of hospitals and clinics, doctors and nurses, and all manner of technicians and assistants. | Dec. 06, 2015
Baptist Memorial Health Care names a new chief financial officer for the Memphis-based hospital system. | Dec. 04, 2015
The owner of two Arkansas mental health companies has been indicted in a bribery case with Memphis-area ties. | Dec. 03, 2015
Medtronic Spine's second-quarter revenue dips while the company reaps benefits from its Ireland acquisition. | Dec. 03, 2015
Outside the Loop
There are some troubling findings associated with the actions of a Germantown cop that have emerged in the last 10 days or so -- actions contrary to the image the GPD would like portrayed publicly. These aren’t just accusations; they are findings of an internal investigation. | Nov. 24, 2015
Joint applications by Baptist Memorial Hospital and Regional One Health to build two free-standing emergency departments — one in Lakeland and the other in Southeast Memphis — are in limbo after rulings by the state Health Services and Development Agency. | Nov. 23, 2015
Outside the Loop
A very happy Election Day to you. | Nov. 19, 2015
Resurrection Health and Alliance Healthcare Services are partnering to provide mental health and primary care services in one stop. | Nov. 19, 2015
The West Cancer Center spotlights its new, renovated facility in Germantown and plans for another one in Memphis. | Nov. 17, 2015
The donation, largest ever for the 97-year-old hospital, is the latest major event in the $2.8 billion transformation under way in the Medical District, a cluster of five hospitals and the UTHSC complex employing 17,000 on the edge of Downtown. | Nov. 12, 2015
The Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce and the University of Memphis will partner with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to host the Better Health Through Economic Opportunity Forum on Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. | Nov. 10, 2015
The West Cancer Center is hosting cancer experts in Memphis this week for a conference before a grand opening in Germantown next week.
| Nov. 09, 2015
Two Memphis business leaders will give separate public speeches Wednesday. | Nov. 09, 2015
Outside the Loop
Lakeland mayor Wyatt Bunker, a Baptist employee, says there is no conflict of interest concerning the announcement that a satellite emergency department will be built there. | Nov. 05, 2015
A new AARP program offers an incentive to spend SNAP benefits on fresh produce at some Memphis-area area Kroger stores.
| Nov. 04, 2015
Baptist Memorial Hospital and Regional One Health have applied for a state certificate of need to construct freestanding emergency departments in Lakeland and on Quince near Kirby. | Nov. 04, 2015
Fed up with seeing nearly three dozen patients a day, a Germantown doctor decides to stop accepting insurance to spend for more time with patients. | Oct. 31, 2015
Thursday's report from the American Cancer Society that black and white women are now being diagnosed with breast cancer at the same rate, with diagnoses rising for black women, was particularly bad news for black women in Memphis. | Oct. 29, 2015
Gov. Bill Haslam said he met Wednesday with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital officials, who want the state to have "skin in the game" on their expansion plans. | Oct. 29, 2015
Physician supervision for advanced practice nurses is one of the prescriptions that the Tennessee Medical Association has for state lawmakers. | Oct. 28, 2015
St. Jude and its fund-raising arm, ALSAC, want to build a data center taller than rules allow, and put it farther away from the street than is allowed. | Oct. 28, 2015
Business Q&A;
With open enrollment set to begin Sunday, here are five things to know about singing up for Obamacare. | Oct. 28, 2015
A 23 percent rise in a benchmark Obamacare plan should still be affordable for those getting subsidies, brokers say. | Oct. 27, 2015
The cost of a key health insurance plan sold on HealthCare.gov will rise 23 percent in Tennessee. | Oct. 26, 2015
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander called for a breakthrough route to market for medical devices during a Memphis tour. | Oct. 26, 2015
Methodist Healthcare's first mobile mammography unit is rolling in Memphis as guidelines for breast cancer screening take a turn. | Oct. 23, 2015
Signature Healthcare at St. Francis in Memphis hires new CEO for the nursing care facility..
| Oct. 16, 2015
Knoxville insurance co-op Community Health Alliance won't offer health coverage in 2016, adding to a troubling trend. | Oct. 14, 2015
Designers have flooded the old Sears Crosstown with natural sunlight to grace offices, classrooms and apartments in the $200 million renovation.
| Oct. 05, 2015
Memphis-based Baptist Memorial Health Care turns $11 million profit over nine months, a $58 million turnaround from same period in 2014. | Oct. 01, 2015
Sterigenics International, which sterilizes medical devices on an outsourced, contract basis, will build a $15 million expansion of its West Memphis facility, tripling its gamma sterilization capacity and adding 20 jobs at full capacity, the company announced Thursday. | Oct. 01, 2015
Fred's has added telemedicine services to a pharmacy in Mississippi, the first of more to come. | Sept. 30, 2015
Smith & Nephew Inc. is on a hiring binge as Memphis ramps up education to meet the demand for medical device workers. | Sept. 25, 2015
Regional One Health returns primary care to Harbor Town. | Sept. 22, 2015
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