by mattkoyak | May 8, 2019 | Employee Spotlight, Foundation, News, System News (Innovation), Uncategorized
Jason Troutner is a young man, but he has already been in a cast over 60 times due to multiple surgeries for clubfoot and injuries from competing as a gymnast. It’s a challenge, but Troutner is more than up to it: He’s a mechanical engineer and, even more importantly,...
by mattkoyak | Apr 24, 2019 | Employee Spotlight, Foundation, In the News, News, NICU, Nursing, Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center, System News (Innovation), Women's Services
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...
by mattkoyak | Apr 1, 2019 | Employee Spotlight, Foundation, News, Specialties, System News (Innovation), Uncategorized
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...
by mattkoyak | Feb 13, 2019 | Foundation, News, System News (Innovation), Uncategorized
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...
by mattkoyak | Feb 13, 2019 | Foundation, News, Patient Stories, System News (Innovation), Uncategorized
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...
by mattkoyak | Jan 4, 2019 | Foundation, Patient Stories, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, System News (Innovation), Trauma
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...