Bottom line for both sides is quality, affordable healthcare With eight months of pointed contractual negotiations between Saint Francis Hospital and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee finally completed in November, the question remains in this new healthcare world order, “What has to change for local hospitals and insurance companies to work and contract together?”
Tennessee Department of Health 2013 Review, 2014 PreviewFor the past several years, the state has been slowly but steadily moving the needle on the health status of Tennesseans. While still far from where the leadership of the Tennessee Department of Health would like to be, there is a conviction that programming and partnerships truly are making a real difference in real lives all across the state.
We live in the future. And you know it’s true. This past weekend I was watching some reruns of shows from my childhood. I saw the Jetsons. I saw Star Trek. And that’s when it occurred to me, we live in the future.
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West Tennessee Healthcare Joins Vanderbilt Health Affiliated NetworkWest Tennessee Healthcare has joined the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, the largest provider-organized network of doctors, regional health systems and other healthcare providers in Tennessee and surrounding s ...
The vision of better care for cancer patients in West Tennessee that started nearly four years ago with a $5 million gift is now a reality. The Alice and Carl Kirkland Cancer Center has opened its doors in Jackson on the medical campus of West Tennessee Healthcare. The 82,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility provides not only more treatment options and support for patients, it is also providing new hope in a setting unlike any in the region.
Whatever the term “du jour” is, it still comes down to Population Health Management or Community Health Management. It is what it is. It is a concept. In my column that appeared in the August, 2013, of Memphis Medical News, “Hurdles on the Track of the Affordable Care Act,” I mentioned two challenges sited in a survey and study conducted by the MGMA that couldn’t have illustrated this concept any better.
The Physician Leadership Academy, a new program to strengthen doctors’ leadership skills, is under way at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
Classes started in September and are held for four hours once a month, except December.
For upstate New York native, Matthew Hughes, some insightful advice from his father led him to a career helping others maintain their sight. Rather than being a traditional eye care clinic, the Hughes Eye Center in Jackson, focuses on managing and treating advanced ocular and surgical needs of patients.
