Baptist Memorial hospitals recently hired or promoted several colleagues to manager or director positions.

 

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis recently named Mary Jane Robison supervisor of the pathology laboratory. Before joining Baptist, she was the supervisor of the microbiology laboratory at the Regional Medical Center.

 

Baptist Memphis also named Beverly Cusano director of radiation oncology. She previously served as administrative director of radiation oncology for St. Vincent's Health Care in Jacksonville, Fla.

 

Karen Ingram is now the director of human resources for Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women. She previously held the same position at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville. 

 

Baptist Home Care and Hospice-North Mississippi appointed Janet Crawford clinical manager of the hospice's new office in Southaven.

 

Rosalee Thompson is now the director of quality at Baptist Women's She has been with Baptist for 32 years.

 

Baptist Trinity Home Care and Hospice named Lolita Pickard administrative director. Prior to joining Baptist Trinity, Pickard served as a legal nurse consultant for a local law office and administrator for Home Health Care of West Tennessee.

 

Georganne Gairhan is the new manager of staff development at Baptist Women's Hospital. She previously served as the hospital's staff development specialist.

 

When: September 18, 2009, 8:15 a.m.

Where: FedEx Institute of Technology, Memphis, Tennessee

Sponsored by: Methodist University Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee

 

Learn the newest techniques and treatments in stroke care from nationally renowned physicians and EMS leaders. There is no cost for this day-long program designed to educate the pre-hospital community, including EMT's, Paramedics, Fire Personnel, hospital staff and nurses on the latest in pre-hospital stroke care.

 

Subjects covered include pre-hospital care protocol regarding transport, emergency department contact, airway, glucose, and hypertension and t-PA contraindications, witness information, and neurologic exam.

 

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

 

The keynote address for this conference will be given by David Lee Gordon, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology; Kathryn G. and Doss Owen Lynn, M.D. Chair in Neurology, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center.

 

Space is limited so pre-registration is required. Paramedics, EMT's and Nurses, should call 1-888-777-5959 to reserve their seat.

 

orthomemphis announced recently that Physical Therapists Lauren James, MPT, CMP; Casey Malone, MPT, Cert. MDT, CMP; and Mark Temme PT, OCS, Dip MDT, CMP, passed the certification examination in the Mulligan Concept. There are only two other physical therapists that have received the CMP certification in the Memphis area.

 

Temme is the Rehabilitation Director at orthomemphis where he has worked since 1998. He has also completed the McKenzie Diploma and is Board Certified as an Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Specialist. James joined orthomemphis in 2005 after receiving a Masters in Physical Therapy from the University of Tennessee. Malone earned her Masters in Physical Therapy from UT Memphis and joined orthomemphis in 2003. She also received McKenzie Certification. With this new certification, the Physical Therapists will now have the designation CMP (Certified Mulligan Practitioner) after their names.

 

By passing the examination, Physical Therapists become certified in the concept of mobilizations with movement (MWMS) in the extremities and sustained natural apophyseal glides (SNAGS) in the spine through physical therapist-applied passive physiological movements and accessory techniques.

 

"The 5th Annual Swing for the Cure Ladies Tennis Round Robin Event sponsored by The Sharon Reves Foundation will take place on Tuesday, October 20, at the Germantown Athletic Club. Registration is at 8:30 am, play begins at 9:00 am with a celebration lunch at 12:00 pm. 

 

The Sharon Reves Foundation is an affiliate of The Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization whose mission is to empower people and ensure quality care for all as it energizes science to find the cures. Since this tournament began five years ago, it has raised more than $150,000.00 and increased breast cancer awareness throughout the Mid-South community.

 

For more information about participation, sponsorship ordonation, please contact Tracy McFall at 901 758 1422 or swingforthecure@comcast.net or go to swingforthecure.org."

 

PARIS, TN - Dr. Randolph Richards is the new Otolaryngologist at Henry County Medical Center.

 

Dr. Richards obtained his bachelor's degree at Vanderbilt University. He then earned his degree in medicine at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Richards completed his residency in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Tennessee at Memphis in 1995. Dr. Richards is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the American Board of Otolaryngology and the American College of Surgeons.

 

PARIS, TN – Henry County Medical Center is pleased to be able to offer the region diagnostic cardiac catheterization services with the outstanding reputation of Saint Thomas Heart Cardiologist, Dr. David Gibson.

 

The cardiac cath team has been very busy over the past few months, since opening the service to the community in April. In fact, the team performed seven diagnostic caths on Friday, June 12.

 

The team experienced on-the-job training at Saint Thomas Heart in Nashville. They studied critical care, advanced cardiac life support, hemodynamics and EKG through HCMC's own Nursing Education Department.

 

The cardiac cath team has seen wonderful success with the tests that have been performed at HCMC.

 

MEMPHIS — Trumbull Laboratories, LLC/Pathology Group of the Midsouth, PC is pleased to introduce their newest pathologist, Matthew A. Dress, MD.

 

Dress has extensive knowledge of Hematopathology, flow cytometry, blood banking and transfusion medicine, coagulation and many other areas of surgical pathology. Dress is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and is currently board eligible in Hematopathology.

 

Before joining Pathology Group of the MidSouth, Dress served as the chief resident during his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Tennessee. He then completed a fellowship in hematopathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center – Strong Memorial Hospital.

 

He received his B.S from Christian Brothers University before earning his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

 

Memphis Heart Clinic is pleased to welcome Edward Evans, MD, FACC, an interventional and consultative cardiologist, to its practice. Dr. Evans has been in private practice in Southaven, MS for approximately 10 years and will continue seeing patients at Memphis Heart Clinic's Southaven office location. Dr. Evans is board certified in Internal Medicine as well as in Adult Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology and Nuclear Cardiology. 

 

Very active in the Memphis and Southaven medical community, Dr. Evans has served as past president of the DeSoto Medical Society as well as the Memphis Cardiovascular Society. He currently serves as Vice President of the Baptist DeSoto Medical Staff. Dr. Evans is available for inpatient and outpatient consultations and will admit patients to Baptist DeSoto, Baptist Memphis and Methodist Germantown Hospitals.

 

At least one strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus leaves survivors at significantly increased risk for Parkinson's disease and possibly other neurological problems later in life, according to new research from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

 

In the August 10 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers reported that mice which survived infection with an H5N1 flu strain were more likely than uninfected mice to develop brain changes associated with neurological disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Parkinson's and Alzheimer's involve loss of brain cells crucial to a variety of tasks, including movement, memory and intellectual functioning. The study revealed the H5N1 flu strain caused a 17 percent loss of the same neurons lost in Parkinson's as well as accumulation in certain brain cells of a protein implicated in both diseases.

 

This avian flu strain does not directly cause Parkinson's disease, but it does make you more susceptible,said Richard Smeyne, Ph.D., associate member in St. Jude Developmental Neurobiology. Smeyne is the paper's senior author.

 

Most people die before they lose enough neurons to get Parkinson's. But we believe this H5N1 infection changes the curve. It makes the brain more sensitive to another hit, possibly involving other environmental toxins," Smeyne explained.

 

Smeyne noted the work involved a single strain of the H5N1 flu virus, the A/Vietnam/1203/04 strain. The threat posed by other viruses, including the current H1N1 pandemic flu virus, is still being studied.

 

Early indications are that the H1N1 pandemic strain carries a low neurologic risk, said Richard Webby, Ph.D., director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds, which is based at St. Jude. Webby, who is also an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases, was not involved in the H5N1 study led by Smeyne.

 

This study also supports the theory that a hit-and-run mechanism is at work in Parkinson's disease. The investigators believe the H5N1 infection sparks an immune response that persists long after the initial threat is gone, setting patients up for further devastating losses from a second hit, possibly from another infection, drug or environmental toxin. In this case, researchers believe the flu virus is the first hit that sets up development of Parkinson's at a later time.

 

PARIS, TN – "State-of-the-Art" may sound cliché these days, but that describes the new Pharmacy Department at HCMC. The pharmacy has moved into a new, much larger location and has added some much-needed equipment that will positively affect safety, security, time and cost.

 

Pharmacy Tech Susan Penn demonstrates the PyxisCIISafe (pronounced C-2) which keeps inventory of all of the controlled medications on hand. It recognizes the need to reorder when necessary, which is a definite cost savings.

 

Julie Edwards, another Pharmacy Technician, operates the MedCarousel which inventories all of the other medications, including liquids, non-liquids and refrigerated doses. The equipment keeps everything consistent and alerts the pharmacy of decreasing/increasing inventory automatically.

 

Another state-of-the- art technology coming soon to HCMC is a bar-coding system for pharmaceuticals. It will be in place by November 2009 and will make the HCMC Pharmacy Department complete. Also, the McKesson PacMed high-speed packager allows the unit dosing of medications that will be bar coded for the nurse at bedside. All of this new equipment will allow us to put patient safety at the fore front at HCMC.

 

Each floor in the hospital has a Pyxis machine from which physician medicine orders are scanned, sent to the Pharmacist, who checks everything for accuracy, then enters those meds into the computer for each patient. Then the nurse is allowed to select the medication from the pyxis cabinet that has been reviewed by the pharmacist.