Castellon cherishes opportunity to help sickest patients
Ed Castellon rides a motorcycle to work, plays golf to let off steam and treasures his Scuba adventures around the world. Maybe those outside interests explain how this 36-year nursing veteran has spent 34 of those years in critical care, particularly working with patients dealing with intense situations. He jokes that it possibly speaks to his mental state. Maybe that’s part of it, and hitting a lot of golf balls probably does help him [...]
How continuity of care matters to your health
By Dr. Karen Andrews Karen Andrews, MD Providing quality health care goes much deeper than diagnosing an illness and prescribing the appropriate medication or therapy. Yes, those are important elements in providing exceptional care. But that care is built on a foundation of trust and familiarity. It starts with a relationship, hopefully one that lasts for years. In medicine we call this relationship continuity of care. It's a physician-led, team-based approach to [...]
Khanna earns Certified Menopause Practitioner designation
Pallavi Khanna, MD, OB/GYN at Regional One Health. Pallavi Khanna, MD, has successfully met the criteria and has passed the examination necessary to become a North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Certified Menopause Practitioner (NCMP). Dr. Khanna specializes in OB/GYN services at Regional One Health. “When I joined Regional One Health a couple of years ago I saw that there was a need for more gynecological care in our community,” she said. [...]
Nurse Profile: Crumley focused on support for burn patients
Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses Nathan Crumley is an assistant nurse manager in Regional One Health’s Firefighters Burn Center. His motivation for a profession devoted to burn patients predates his desire for a nursing career. When Crumley was 18 his father was in an accident and severely burned. Watching the care his father received back home in North Carolina [...]
Nurse Profile: Angelita finds home at Regional One Health
Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses Angelita Rodgers likes the concept of home. It possibly explains her attraction to Regional One Health. She finds a real connection with her co-workers, and meaning in her work at Regional One Health. Rodgers moved around a bit as a child, but she points to Cleveland, Mississippi, as her hometown. It’s where her grandmother [...]
Nurse Profile: Christine shares why she was meant to be at Regional One Health
Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses Christine Maxwell uses one word to describe the care provided in Regional One Health’s Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center: miracle. Since opening in 1968, more than 45,000 premature babies have been treated successfully, and Maxwell believes every instance is an individual miracle. She is a patient care coordinator in the Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center, [...]
Nurse profile: ‘Trauma’ Tommy embodies Regional One Health mission
Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses What’s in a name? For “Trauma” Tommy Willette, it’s life. Willette is a trauma nurse at the Regional One Health Elvis Presley Trauma Center. His role isn’t easy to define, although multitasker who thinks outside the box while working as part of a well-oiled, big team is a good place to start. Willette lives and breathes [...]
Regional One Health creates nursing culture of success
Regional One Health is on the precipice of a new movement in how nursing leads better patient care. This nursing culture of success is led by Regional One Health’s people, from the nurses who have worked here for decades to the new team members who will join in the coming months. Regional One Health will add positions to the current nursing staff, based on an effort to provide a more desirable working culture for [...]
Regional One Health, medical district encourage pedestrian safety
The Be Aware campaign raises awareness of pedestrian safety and for everyone to look at their surroundings in the Medical District. Smart Growth America named Memphis the ninth-most dangerous metropolitan area for pedestrians in the U.S. last year. There were 34 fatal pedestrian accidents in Memphis in 2016, a stat the city is on pace to pass this year with more than 20 such deaths through the first half of 2017. Unintentional [...]
UTROP welcomes trauma surgeons Filiberto, Lewis
UT Regional One Physicians is proud to introduce trauma surgeons Dr. Dina Filiberto and Dr. Richard Lewis to our practice. Drs. Filiberto and Lewis are part of the team of trauma surgeons at the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, which is designated as a Level 1 Trauma Center in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. It’s the only Level 1 Trauma Center within 150 miles of Memphis. Dr. Filiberto attended medical school at SUNY Health Science Center at [...]