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The Regional Medical Center at Memphis president and CEO Reginald Coopwood will lay out his vision for the hospital Thursday to members of MPACT Memphis and the Memphis Urban League of Young Professionals. The event is part of a new collaboration between the groups called YP MeetUP, which seeks to create a forum for young professionals t...

Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics is beefing up its presence in the Memphis Medical Center. The practice plans to start renovations in September as it expands its footprint within The Memphis Professional Building at 1211 Union Ave. Campbell Clinic, which already has offices on the fifth floor, is leasing another 3,500 square feet on the first...

With at least $1 million worth of commissioned art pieces created by more than 50 artists housed in its new state-of-the-art building, Le Bonheur Childrens Hospital isnt just a surgery center for young people. It is also a new museum of contemporary public art. Le Bonheur is known for its health care, but people may not know now it hous...

Most who drive by the vacant parking garage at Madison Avenue and Pauline Street arent even aware there are motel rooms atop the garage. This week, the building at 969 Madison Ave. got a bit closer to a new life with a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and loan assistance to bring back the mot...

Work for Dr. Steve Schwab long enough and you'll hear about  and likely come to live and die by  "end-point metrics." They are the straight-up, no-lie numbers that measure ultimate performance and are hard to hide behind. Schwab will use these numbers to guide the ship he now helms, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Schw...

The Center City Development Corp. has awarded a $75,000 commercial office grant to Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being, a subsidiary of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare that is planning to sign a lease Downtown at 50 Peabody Place. The organization is bringing 120 people to its new office, for which its planning to sign a lease for t...

The Medical Education & Research Institute has been designated as a Simulation Center of Excellence in the State of Tennessee. Gov. Phil Bredesen signed the resolution, #794, which was introduced by state Sen. Mark Norris. According to Norris, the General Assembly recognizes organizations that strive to improve the quality of life for Ten...

Helena Health Foundation has donated $25,000 to The MED Foundation for a trauma training and on-call center at The Regional Medical Center at Memphis. This expansion will provide a working, teaching and recharging area for trauma faculty and staff. The hospital has one of the three busiest trauma centers in the nation. Dr. P. Vasudevan, ex...

James L. Robinson III, the CEO of the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, thinks often of the men who had his name before him. The son and grandson of veterans, Robinson saw firsthand how they depended upon hospitals like the one he now leads. Robinson keeps their photographs in his office, looking to them for inspiration as he charts...

Dr. Russell Chesney, chair of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been selected for the top honor bestowed by the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. He will receive the Ira Greifer Award on Sept. 1 at a ceremony in New York. Chesney is being recognized for the research he leads at UTHSC to impr...