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HCA’s Bovender on Going Private, the Uninsured and Why He Goes to Work
Jack O. Bovender Jr. was a lieutenant stationed at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., when the founders of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) filed the fledgling company’s initial public offering in 1969. HCA boasted 11 hospitals then, and that number grew to 26 by year’s end. The tally by 1973 was 51 hospitals – and climbing like a thermometer’s mercury on a red-hot day.
BY SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Payment Principles Endorsed by AAFP
With reimbursement methods still screaming for reform, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has taken the cry a step further by actually putting their thoughts to paper.
The AAFP has numerous principles to consider when devising a new payment plan and has taken those to top officials.
BY GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
Physician Spotlight: TMA’s 153rd President J. Mack Worthington, MD
Math’s loss is medicine’s gain.
When the Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) installed Dr. J. Mack Worthington as the organization’s 153rd president at the annual meeting in late April, it’s a moment that easily might not have happened because Worthington set out to be a math teacher … not an MD.
BY CINDY SANDERS |
Advanced Laser Provides Superior Visual Outcomes Post Surgery
Even though laser technology has made eye surgery a safer and more effective procedure, the majority of complications from laser eye surgery are due to using blades to make incisions in the top layer of the eye for procedures such as LASIK and corneal transplants.
BY HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Memphis Replicates African Asset Mapping Model
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare (MLH) has made Memphis the first United States city to replicate a model of healthcare that started in Africa.
The three-year project, which grew out of the African Religious Health Assets Program (ARHAP), will map both tangible assets, such as clinics, and intangible religious health assets, such as prayer and goodwill efforts, that are considered useful in combating targeted health issues and provide them as a resource for healthcare providers and congregations to coordinate all aspects of one’s care.
BY GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN |
Sufferers of Chronic Dry Eye Find Relief
Years ago, the shelves of convenience store pharmacies had only a small section for eye drops. Today, numerous products fill shelves addressing an array of eye moisture issues. Tears function to protect the eyes and keep them lubricated and comfortable. Chronic dry eye is a decline in quantity and/or quality of the tears produced, causing eyes to feel irritated, scratchy, burning, red and uncomfortable. It affects about 20.7 million people in the United States, according to the National Women’s Health Resource Center (NWHRC), and is the most common of all eye disorders, affecting approximately 20 percent of the population.
BY HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
St. Jude School Program Allows Patients to Maintain Education
When 6-year-old Evan Thomason was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma last year, the first thing his mother, Melissa, worried about was his health. The second: his education. He was supposed to start kindergarten in his hometown of Birmingham, Ala. that year and his mother thought he would have to postpone school.
BY HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Targeting Tennessee’s Drug Utilization Rates
The Tennessee Medical Association (TMA), in partnership with several other state organizations and agencies, recently launched the Tennessee Prescription Safety Program to target misuse and abuse of schedule II narcotics.
BY CINDY SANDERS |
Many Factors Driving UT’s College of Nursing 2010 Plan
As the shortage of nurses persists across the country, healthcare professionals and educators continue to search for answers.
At the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Nursing, the faculty has been working for several years on The College of Nursing 2010 Plan, a comprehensive approach to the issue.
BY KAREN OTT MAYER |
July Grand Rounds
Steve West Tapped To Take New Community Benefits Leadership Role
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Steve West has been named Senior Vice President of Community Benefits, a position that will focus his skills, knowledge and passion to benefit Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and its community partners.
West — who has served Methodist for 29 years — will serve as the Institute’s first Executive Director.
West is also assuming a part-time role as the first Executive Director for the newly-forming Health Law Institute at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey School of Law.
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New State Law Should Speed Up
Credentialing with third-party payers just got a little easier for Tennessee physicians, thanks to legislation the General Assembly passed in May. Starting Oct. 1, payers have 90 days from the time providers submit an application to let the applicants know whether they will be credentialed.
BY SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
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