The Methodist Neuroscience Institute unveiled a $2.8 million expansion Tuesday, Sept. 9, that will centralize patient care and bring its medical team together on one floor at Methodist University Hospital.
Memphis City Council members want to hear more from all involved before they support a push to call off the building of a $1.9 billion new campus for Regional One Health, a Shelby County-owned hospital the city does not fund nor has any control over.
Memphis City Council members get an update Tuesday, Sept. 9, on the status of the Memphis Area Transit Authority.
Federal student loans made it possible for Dr. Nia Zalamea to become a doctor, performing lifesaving procedures at Regional One Health.
Regional One Health is moving forward with its plans to transform The Commercial Appeal’s former 16-acre campus near Downtown Memphis into a more than $1 billion full academic medical center.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center was chosen to receive $12 million from the Tennessee Department of Health to lead a four-year, statewide program aimed at improving health outcomes for rural Tennesseans.
When vascular neurologist Dr. Balaji Krishnaiah came to Memphis in 2017, only one or two medical students — out of local classes of 180 at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine — wanted to go into neurology.
Memphis is part of the “Stroke Belt,” a Southeastern region where residents have higher stroke mortality rates.
