Where no expectant mother wants to find out that there are high-risk complications with her pregnancy, over 1,300 premature or critically ill newborns are treated every year at Regional One Health, some entering the world weighing less than one pound. When Jennifer and Ashton Hall first learned they were expecting rare identical triplets, they [...]
ONE Night 2015 Draws Largest Crowd Ever For Annual Gala More than 900 Mid-Southerners supported the life-saving work of the Foundation by attending ONE Night 2015 on Saturday, March 28 at the Cook Convention Center. As the Foundation’s largest fundraiser of the year, ONE Night helps provide the state-of-the-art medical equipment and specialized training [...]
Established To Recognize Donors Who Make Planned Gifts John Gaston was a successful businessman and philanthropist in Memphis during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Born in France in 1828, Gaston migrated to the United States sometime in the 1850s and landed a job as a waiter at the famed Delmonico’s restaurant in New [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to the generous support of our Regional One Health family, the 2014 Employee Giving Campaign raised $155,000 to help advance medical excellence for the future of our community. Employees from throughout the Regional One Health system commit to donate to the Foundation each year in the month of May. At the end of [...]
Regional One Health applauds Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s announcement today to create Insure Tennessee, a new two-year health insurance pilot program. Insure Tennessee will provide health care coverage to nearly 400,000 Tennesseans who currently don’t have access to health insurance or have limited options. Reginald W. Coopwood, MD, President and CEO of Regional One [...]
“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 [...]
ONE COMMUNITY. ONE PULSE. These smiling cyclists were just a few of the many supporters who participated in the annual “Ride for Your Mind” event on October 12 . The event raised over $6,000 to benefit Regional One Health’s traumatic brain injury services. Elvis Presley fans from all over the world feel close to [...]
To observe Brain Injury Awareness Month (March) and honor those who live with traumatic brain injuries, Regional One Health has donated a variety of books and other educational items about traumatic brain injuries to The Memphis Public Library & Information Center. “From major car crashes to concussions from sports, brain injury awareness is a [...]