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Since 1911, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has been a staple of the Memphis community. Training and employing some of the nation’s top health-care professionals, UTHSC brings approximately $2 billion to the Memphis-area economy each year. With the main campus located in the heart of the Memphis Medical Center, the statewide academic health-care institution also has major sites across the state.
The presence of such a large academic health science facility results in many advantages for the Memphis community — advantages that are reciprocated by the dynamic, innovative, and culturally diverse region. Below are more of the many health-care facilities that, together, make Memphis one of the healthiest places to live in the country.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville has premier facilities including large patient rooms with the amenities of home and a 75-acre, beautifully landscaped campus. Medical services include a full-service emergency room, a Women’s Center, outpatient rehabilitation, MRI facilities, inpatient and outpatient surgery and diagnostics, the Baptist Sleep Disorders Center, 54 acute-care beds, seven critical-care beds, a Wellness Center, and a six-bed step-down unit.
Baptist Memphis is the flagship of the 15-hospital Baptist Memorial Health Care system and serves as a major referral system for patients across the Mid-South. The hospital offers many diagnostic, surgical, and rehabilitation services and has added many beds in the past few years with the opening of a new patient tower and the Baptist Heart Institute. Consumers have named it the most preferred hospital for overall health-care services in a National Research Corporation poll for the past 13 years, and, in 2008, the hospital received HealthGrades’ "Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence," placing it among the nation’s top five percent of hospitals in a number of specialty areas. The facility also houses the 35-bed Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Skilled Nursing Facility and the 30-bed Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital.
Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women is the only freestanding women’s hospital in Memphis and one of only a few in the U.S. Special facilities include a newborn intensivecare unit, a high-risk pregnancy center, a urodynamics center, and a comprehensive breast center that includes a Breast Risk Management Center, mammography, stereotactic biopsy, ultrasound, digital mammogram, and Second Look.
This rehab hospital offers a full array of inpatient and outpatient medical rehabilitation services. The facility specializes in the treatment of neurological and orthopedic disorders and spinal cord and brain injuries. The hospital operates an outpatient and inpatient physical rehabilitation center and an on-site general ambulatory surgery program. Outpatient therapy services are offered onsite and at three satellite locations.
Lakeside provides comprehensive treatment for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. As a full-service private behavioral health hospital, Lakeside specializes in inpatient, outpatient, and day treatment for emotional/ behavioral problems, emotional trauma, and addiction problems for all ages. Lakeside’s 37-acre main campus is located near I-40 and Highway 64 and has been in operation since 1976. Two outpatient centers — Cresthaven, located in East Memphis, and a location in Jackson, Tennessee — provide day and evening outpatient programming. Lakeside also operates an around-the-clock assessment center to help people find the treatment that best meets their needs.
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital, located in east Shelby County, is a community hospital serving East Memphis, Germantown, Collierville, Fayette County, North Mississippi, and surrounding communities. The hospital offers services for pediatric patients, OBGYN services, cardiac care, general medicine, diagnostic services, outpatient rehabilitation services for physical, speech, and occupational therapy, and help for those with urinary incontinence and pelvic disorders. Also offered is Le Bonheur Rehabilitation Services for pediatric patients and an emergency room with an accredited chest-pain center.
Saint Francis Hospital is a full-service healthcare facility that offers a wide range of services including a chest-pain emergency center and a Cardiac Care Center that has been named a UnitedHealthcare Premium Cardiac Specialty Center. The Saint Francis Center for Surgical Weight Loss has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the American Society of Bariatric Surgery and as a CIGNA Certified Hospital for Bariatric Surgery. Other services include a stroke emergency center, diabetes care center, cancer care center, family birthing center, women’s center, behavioral health services, geriatric psych unit, nursing home, five sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, a sleep center, an ambulatory surgery center, a heartburn center, and the TotalCare Outpatient Diagnostic Center.
A part of the Memphis community since 1922, the VA Medical Center is a tertiary-care facility and one of the most complex in the nation’s VA health-care system. Located in the heart of the Memphis medical community, the VA Medical Center makes services available to more than 196,000 veterans residing in 53 counties in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. It serves as a regional referral center for spinal cord injury and prosthetics treatment and offers acute medical, surgical, and psychiatric care as well as comprehensive primary, intermediate, and specialized outpatient care to entitled and eligible veterans.
Founded in 1952, Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center is the Mid-South’s first and only comprehensive pediatric medical facility. More than 130,000 children throughout the region are treated annually, the majority of them under the age of five. Children are referred to Le Bonheur from all over the United States and throughout the world. Le Bonheur has the largest brain tumor program in the U.S. and has one of the most advanced epilepsy centers in the country.
MMHI is one of five psychiatric hospitals in Tennessee. State-owned and operated, this public community hospital specializes in short-term, inpatient, intensive psychiatric care for adults. The facility provides individualized treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation where patients receive care based on their specific needs. MMHI is an affiliate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
Methodist Extended Care Hospital is housed on the same campus as Methodist University Hospital. MECH is a long-term, acute-care facility that provides highly individualized care for medically fragile patients who still need specialized nursing care and intensive therapies through an extended hospital stay.
Methodist University Hospital, located in the heart of the Memphis Medical Center, is a full-service tertiary care facility, receiving referrals from across the Mid-South, the U.S., and the world. It has one of the largest neuroscience programs in the country and a robotic surgery program. Other services include cardiology, oncology, transplant services, urology, orthopedic, ear/nose/throat, diabetic dialysis, and rehabilitation. Methodist University Hospital has an emergency room with an accredited chest-pain center. This is the flagship for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, the third-largest hospital system in the country (based on admissions) and Memphis’ second-largest private employer. Methodist University is the principal adult private teaching hospital for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
The Regional Medical Center at Memphis, commonly known as THE MED, is an acute-care teaching hospital that serves a six-state region within 150 miles of Memphis, Tennessee.
St. Jude is the premier center in the U.S. for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other childhood catastrophic diseases. It specializes in the research of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, numerous solid tumor forms of cancer, severe infectious diseases, and genetic disorders. Each year, the hospital treats more than 4,400 patients from all over the world, most of whom are seen on an outpatient basis. No family ever pays St. Jude for medical treatment. The internationally renowned center is in the midst of a $1.2 billion expansion program that has seen four new buildings in the past five years; next will be a $114 million tower to house diagnostic imaging and radiation oncology, as well as a brain cancer research and treatment center.
Methodist North Hospital, located in northeast Shelby County, is a community hospital serving the Raleigh-Bartlett area and surrounding communities as well as residents of North Shelby and South Tipton counties. Methodist North offers a full range of services including comprehensive cardiac care, acute inpatient care and treatment, expanded laser surgery capabilities, extensive surgical services, outpatient radiology and mammography, a sameday surgery unit, a robotics surgery program, and a total joint center. Methodist North also offers outpatient therapeutic services, including rehabilitation services for speech, occupational, and physical therapy, as well as cardiac rehabilitation, and also offers the latest healing services through its Advanced Wound Care Center. Methodist North has an emergency department with an accredited chest-pain center.
Bartlett’s first full-service health-care facility opened in June 2004, offering emergency and surgical care. The facility is located on 23.6 acres and features 64 medical/surgical beds, a maternity ward with 10 mother-baby suites, 10 Level II nursery beds, and 16 critical care/ intensive care beds. It also provides a 24-hour emergency-care center.
Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto opened in 1988. Since then, the population of the five-county area served by the hospital has boomed, and the hospital is steadily expanding to meet the needs of its patients. In November 2006, Baptist DeSoto opened an 11-story hospital tower that added 140 beds to the facility, allowing it to offer all private patient rooms, a new and expanded emergency department, more operating suites, and space for future additions. The hospital also provides a 24- hour emergency room and the Baptist DeSoto Outpatient Diagnostic Center and Women’s Center, which offers a number of diagnostic services.
Delta Medical Center is a medical/surgical hospital offering around-the-clock emergency services, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology, inpatient and ambulatory surgery, and an intensive care unit. Additional services include a sleep lab and hyperbaric and wound care services. Inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services offer adult mental health, addictive disorder treatment, geriatric programs, and Christian-based services.
Methodist South Hospital is an acute-care satellite hospital located in Whitehaven, serving South Memphis and North Mississippi. Services include a dialysis unit, a maternity center, a critical care unit, a cancer-care center, a self-contained same-day surgery unit, an emergency room with a certified chest pain center, and specialized wound healing services at the Comprehensive Wound Healing Center.
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