The city unveiled its new $34 million crisis wellness center in Binghampton on Friday, Feb. 14, a facility that officials expect will divert thousands of people annually from local jails and emergency rooms.
Our city and county face a difficult but important decision: how to allocate our limited resources to address urgent needs. We require both a new jail and a new hospital, but given financial constraints, we must make choices that maximize public benefit and long-term sustainability.
U.S. medical schools’ and research institutions’ budgets could be gutted if a recent Trump administration plan to reduce federal funding is allowed to stand, according to researchers.
On Friday, Feb. 7, in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Mooney Library, Dr. Phil Wenk received a standing ovation from his colleagues at his final meeting as chair of the UTHSC advisory board.
After more than three decades at Germantown Presbyterian Church, Jerold Teachey will conduct the choir one final time Sunday.
Dr. Reginald Coopwood has run Regional One Health for 15 years, part of it in a building that was built in 1829, when it was the first hospital in the state.
The idea of the county-owned Regional One Health hospital being co-owned with the state of Tennessee through the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is still alive.
A new Regional One Health hospital could be built on the site of the old Commercial Appeal building at 495 Union Ave., according to a new plan unveiled Monday, Jan. 27, before the Shelby County Board of Commissioners.
