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Dr. Mack Land
Solving clinical problems the way a detective solves crimes is akin to the work of Mack Land, MD, internist and hospital epidemiologist at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (the MED). Being in an acute-care and trauma facility, combating infections is a demanding, non-stop task. Whether it's discovering the source of a mysterious fever or combating the spread of infection through hospital equipment, Land is on the scene to reduce infection and direct safety control measures...
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Plan Taxes Now for Year-End Savings
As the holiday season begins to unfold, few of us want to start thinking about tax preparations, especially when the economic forecast is so gloomy. But for doctors, particularly those who own their medical practice, it's always wise to get a year-end update from a reputable CPA on the latest tax code changes...
JANE SCHNEIDER |
Sick Babies to Benefit from Mommy's Medicine Program
Several times a week, the rhythmic thumping of a helicopter overhead announces the arrival of a sick child to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center. The patients are often just hours old, babies born prematurely who are then airlifted to Le Bonheur from regional hospitals around the Mid-South. They are typically the sickest of the sick, starting out life in desperate need of surgery or intensive care. While parents can feel helpless at such critical times, there is hope...
JANE SCHNEIDER |
Statewide Project Seeks Physician Volunteers to Help Reduce Kidney Failure
In August, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began their Chronic Kidney Disease Project across the U.S. to address the burden of the disease on the healthcare system. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 11 percent of the U.S. population over age 65. CKD is the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the healthcare costs to Medicare are vast...
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Ben Vereen Shines a Spotlight on Diabetes
Iconic Entertainer Launches National Awareness CampaignBen Vereen, star of stage and screen, was just another frightened patient a year ago.
According to the Tony Award-winning actor, "I was feeling off for quite awhile. I was tired all the time. I couldn't focus. I was thirsty all the time. … everything was off … my whole system was off."
Hospitalized at the end of 2007, the lab report on his blood work uncovered a reason for his growing malaise. Like someone every 30 seconds around the country, Ben Vereen was diagnosed diabetic...
CINDY SANDERS |
Common Table Update
Healthy Memphis Common Table's (HMCT) Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Initiative with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is well under way to help Memphis physicians improve quality of care for the people they serve. This month we address the benefits of instituting "all-payer" healthcare quality reporting...
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Getting Ahead of the Tax Man
The air and the apples are crisp, and football is in full swing. What time is it? Time for some serious tax planning before the end of the calendar year, according to CPA Keith Kamperschroer, immediate past president of Nashville-based HCAA, the National CPA Health Care Advisors Association...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Joined at the Hip – Diabetes and Hypertension
Last November, Memphis Medical News reported on a local UT study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine the biological triggers that push people from normal glucose to pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes is a health condition known as impaired glucose tolerance, representing a score on the blood glucose test that is in between normal and diabetes...
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
Stephen C. Reynolds, President and CEO of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
Today’s healthcare leaders have an increasing responsibility to adjust and be more efficient in the rapidly changing world of healthcare delivery. Memphis Medical News is beginning a “Leaders in Healthcare” series to give leaders, from hospital CEOs to practice managers to department heads, a forum to express their strategy and vision for evolving with the industry now and into the future...
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
A Multifaceted Approach to Diabetes Education
Spreading the word about how to combat an American epidemic calls for methods as diverse as the nation itself.
In the case of diabetes, national health promotion efforts are targeting not only the broad U.S. population but also its most at-risk ethnic minorities, each with its own nuances of culture, language and community life...
LUCY SCHULTZE |
TennCare Wrestling with Resources
The Dichotomy of Expanding Home Care while Reducing Private-Duty Nursing at HomeWhen it comes to providing home- and community-based services to TennCare's elderly and disabled, the state is walking a tightrope … working to expand such services when clinically appropriate and cost-effective while simultaneously reducing at-home, private-duty nursing benefits for some patients...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
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