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 [...]
Patient Story: Nurse midwives provide special delivery
Photo Credit: JL Scott Photography When Sarah Irby returned to Memphis with her husband in 2015 after living in Nebraska for a couple of years, she recently had given birth to a son with the assistance of nurse midwives. She knew that if she had another child she wanted to again deliver with the care of a nurse midwife. Before she got pregnant, Irby researched and discovered Regional One Health is the [...]
UTROP Welcomes Dr. Matthew Gill
UT Regional One Physicians is proud to introduce anesthesiologist Dr. Matthew Gill to our practice. Dr. Gill attended medical school at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and completed his residency in anesthesiology at University of Washington in Seattle. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Gill served 14 years on active duty with the United States Air Force. His service included [...]
Total Motion Release brings strength, balance to body
Occupational therapy addresses a person’s injuries or illnesses that make it more difficult to perform functions of daily life. Total Motion Release protocol. Regional One Health’s Center for Rehabilitative Medicine uses a new therapy called Total Motion Release that treats body imbalances by focusing on the good side of the body rather than the part that’s restricted. For example, a person’s right knee has limited motion. But instead of focusing there, Total [...]
ONE Health introduces new care for Memphis
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 issues that exacerbate their health. It’s time for ONE Health in Memphis, an opportunity to use compassionate care and exceptional [...]
East Campus offers latest mammogram technology in convenient location
Image detected by the East Campus Imaging Center's new mammogram technology A routine mammogram screening for women at or below average risk for breast cancer is one of those tests that’s easy to put in the category of “I’ll get to it one day.” But the convenient location of and simple scheduling at Regional One Health’s East Campus Imaging Center make it much easier for one day to become today for an [...]