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Leaders in Healthcare: Steve Coplon, CEO of The West Clinic
A forward-thinking vision that began in 1979 when William West, MD, opened a small two-room cancer clinic in downtown Memphis set in motion the trend of community oncology. In the past 30 years The West Clinic has steadily grown into a national leader in cancer treatment and research. Community oncology clinics became the nationwide standard for cancer care, and the evolution of that care has made access to innovative therapies much easier and faster for patients.
HOLLI W. HAYNIE |
FIT Reaches Out to Homeless, Pregnant Women
Derek Mullinix, MD, understands the meaning of service.
His job takes him north to Dyersburg, Tenn., three days a week, where he works as an emergency room physician at Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. While he could accept a different position at a hospital closer to his home in Cordova, Mullinix said he enjoys the challenges he is exposed to at this small community hospital, where he treats everything from gun shot wounds to broken arms. He is also passionate about the work he does when home with his wife and two preschool children, particularly when it comes to serving people in need.
JANE SCHNEIDER |
Common Table Update
Home is the place where, When you have to go there, They have to take you in.
--Robert Frost
The Patient-Centered Medical Home Model is a central strategy for the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Initiative to help Memphis physicians serve their patients better.
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Searching for Solutions
State Works to Improve Birth OutcomesWhen the March of Dimes released the first of what will become an annual Premature Birth Report Card last November, it became apparent that no state passed with flying colors and many flatly failed their youngest and most vulnerable citizens. With more than 543,000 babies born prematurely each year, no state is immune to the issue of poor birth outcomes.
CINDY SANDERS |
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THA Prepares for 2009
Budget and TennCare Top Legislative PrioritiesThe Tennessee Hospital Association's (THA) Legislative Day on the Hill is scheduled for February 17th, and the 2009 budget will top their agenda.
"It's all about the budget," said Craig Becker, president and CEO of THA.
BRIDGET GARLAND |
AMA Sets Policy Priorities for 2009
At the Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates, held in November in Orlando, the national association voted on the key issues that shape the legislative agenda of the nation's largest physician organization.
CINDY SANDERS |
Post-Cardiac Arrest Care
Therapeutic Hypothermia is One of Several Protocols Recommended in AHA Advisory
Once healthcare providers restart the heart of a cardiac-arrest patient, the job has only begun. That's according to a science advisory on post-cardiac arrest care published last October in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association (AHA).
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Keith Anderson, MD
Cardiologist Keith Anderson, MD, remembers the dark days of heart care.
During the mid-1970s, when Anderson worked as a hospital orderly in the coronary care unit at Methodist Central, little could be done for people suffering with angina. When patients experienced a heart attack during their hospital stay, Anderson would simply give them drugs and then leave them alone in a darkened room to weather the frightening, sometimes deadly pain...
JANE SCHNEIDER |
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