At the rate COVID-19 is growing in Shelby County, current ICU capacity will be depleted by mid-August. Sunday, Aug. 1, hospitals across the region were holding patients in emergency rooms because all beds were full. At Methodist University, nearly 25% of patients in the emergency room were COVID-positive, a level the doctors on duty suspect… Read More
Buildings designed by two of Memphis’ most revered, modern architects — A. L. Aydelott and Roy Harrover — are to be razed soon after standing for more than a half-century.The Memphis Fire Department will vacate its 54-year-old building that houses department headquarters and Fire Station No. 5 at 65 Front St. at Union Avenue. The… Read More
As new mask mandates rolled in nationwide Wednesday following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance that vaccinated people in high-transmission areas should still mask indoors, the Shelby County Health Department will not comment on what residents should do. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris said Wednesday, July 28, the county is still reviewing the… Read More
Poplar Healthcare, which has led in laboratory innovation in Memphis during the pandemic, has been sold to a Boston-based software firm that uses artificial intelligence in clinical trials and other biopharma research. With Poplar Healthcare, it will now expand the use of AI in thousands of lab specimens processed in the Memphis lab for routine… Read More
Angry about unilateral changes to their working agreement, more than 100 physicians at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital crowded into a meeting Wednesday, hoping to speak candidly to Methodist and UT leadership. People who attended say there was no acknowledgement that the changes made to the University Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists group could have wide-ranging effects… Read More
Shelby County will not follow the state Health Department’s mandate to no longer promote childhood vaccination, including for COVID-19, officials said Wednesday. “Our mission is to promote, protect and improve the health of ALL in Shelby County,” Shelby County Health Department acting director LaSonya Hall said in a prepared statement.
Physicians at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, angry at changes that affect their physician practice group, are asking for a meeting with leadership of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. In late June, both the Methodist Le Bonheur and UT boards of trustees signed off on a new affiliation agreement… Read More
By early next year, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital expects to be running its first outpost, a 21-bed children’s hospital within Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee. West Tennessee Healthcare, which operates clinics and hospitals in the region including Jackson General hospital, currently holds the license for the pediatric beds there. Under an agreement its… Read More
