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Better Birth Outcomes
Vanderbilt Study Integrates Evidence to Improve Preterm RatesTennessee Connections for Better Birth Outcomes recently received an installment of $637,000 from the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation as part of a four-year research program launched by Vanderbilt University Schools of Nursing and Medicine to improve the gestational age of newborns carried by women at increased risk for preterm birth.
CINDY SANDERS |
Premature Birth: An American Crisis
Every baby deserves a healthy start in life – it's a truism with which no one could argue. Sadly, no one could argue that it's a true description of life in Tennessee.
Every year, more than 500,000 premature babies are born in America. This quiet epidemic inflicts enormous suffering on the most vulnerable among us.
Brian Shipp |
Building for the Future Despite the Economic Challenges of Today
Although the current recession might be the impetus to scale back, delay or even scrap some construction plans in Middle Tennessee, many ambitious healthcare industry projects have been given the green light. Below is a synopsis of several projects that have recently been announced, are in process, or have just been completed.
CINDY SANDERS |
Searching for Solutions
State Works to Improve Birth OutcomesWhen the March of Dimes released the first of what will become an annual Premature Birth Report Card1 last November, it became apparent that no state passed with flying colors and many flatly failed their youngest and most vulnerable citizens. With more than 543,0002 babies born prematurely each year, no state is immune to the issue of poor birth outcomes.
CINDY SANDERS |
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The Evolving Landscape of Long-Term Care
By all accounts, 2008 was a tough year for nursing homes.
Tighter inspections have led to an increase in admission suspensions and closures at skilled nursing facilities across the state. Governor Bredesen was successful in seeing the Long Term Care Community Choices Act pass in the Legislature thus requiring nursing homes to rethink the way they do business...
CINDY SANDERS |
THA Prepares for 2009
Budget and TennCare Top Legislative PrioritiesThe Tennessee Hospital Association's (THA) Legislative Day on the Hill is scheduled for February 17th, and the 2009 budget will top their agenda.
"It's all about the budget," said Craig Becker, president and CEO of THA.
The state's administration is currently looking at large budget cuts to TennCare, and THA believes such a reduction could drastically affect patient care...
BRIDGET GARLAND |
Tennessee Medical Association Legislative Agenda: 2009
A Conversation with Newton Allen, MDNewton Allen is chairman of the Tennessee Medical Association's (TMA) legislative agenda committee. He is a Memphis native and graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and internal medicine residency program, and has been in practice with the Saint Thomas Medical Group since 1989. He has served on the legislative committee for the past six years...
BRENT R. MOODY, MD |
AMA Sets Policy Priorities for 2009
At the Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates, held in November in Orlando, the national association voted on the key issues that shape the legislative agenda of the nation's largest physician organization.
CINDY SANDERS |
Healthcare Enterprise: Pharmaceutical Credit Corp.
Franklin Firm Handles Return or Disposal of Unwanted Prescription DrugsJokingly describing himself as "the trash man of the drug world," Robert H. Wolle Jr. is president and CEO of Franklin-based Pharmaceutical Credit Corp. (PCC), which he founded in 1990. Yet, Wolle acknowledged the company he established nearly two decades ago has evolved into a much more complex enterprise than he ever imagined.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Physician Spotlight: Tina Gresham, MD
Step in the Right Direction
Resolutions, whether for a New Year or a new lifestyle … no matter how motivated or well intentioned … are all too often short lived.
Tina Covington Gresham, MD, knows this to be true.
She tries to make sure that her patients at the Gresham Cardiology Group in Murfreesboro take their resolve to improve their lifestyles one step further —literally...
KELLY PRICE |
Cardiovascular Systems of Care
3-D Echo Optimizes Real-Time Viewing, AnalysisAvancement in the use of clinical echocardiography has been significantly impacted by the recent development of matrix-array ultrasound transducers which enable the capture of 3-dimensional (3-D) images of the heart and surrounding structures...
Presented in partnership with Saint Thomas Health Services |
Saint Thomas Chest Pain Network Expands to Include More Community Hospitals
To underscore the importance of Saint Thomas Health System’s (STHS) ever-growing Chest Pain Network, Tod Lambert tells of a Winchester, Tenn., resident who – suffering chest pains a couple of years ago – got behind the wheel of his car to drive to a Nashville emergency room. “Along the way, he got in trouble and had to be brought the rest of the way by ambulance,” said Lambert, Saint Thomas’ cardiac service line executive.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Post-Cardiac Arrest Care
Therapeutic Hypothermia is One of Several Protocols Recommended in AHA Advisory
Once healthcare providers restart the heart of a cardiac-arrest patient, the job has only begun. That's according to a science advisory on post-cardiac arrest care published last October in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association (AHA).
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Robotic System Advances Cardiac Procedures at Centennial
As surgical instruments and equipment become more sophisticated, so do the surgical procedures themselves. When it comes to cardiac surgery, much of today's astounding advances are credited to robotics, and Nashville's Centennial Heart Center is armed with the latest-generation robotic surgical system. Actually, Centennial is armed four times over, since that's the number of interactive robotic arms on the da Vinci® S HD.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
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