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BCBS Consolidation Aims for Efficiency

Insurance provider reorganizes its Jackson office In June, BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS), the largest health insurance provider in Tennessee, reorganized its offices in Jackson.

HEALTHCARE LEADER: Sam Lynd

Chief Executive Officer & Administrator, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton Making a difference in people’s lives has been Sam Lynd’s goal since high school. When he discovered he could do that in healthcare his next step was to determine what his role should be in the healthcare arena.

PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Dwight Kaufman, PhD, MD

After thirteen years with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, the last four of which were as the deputy director of the Division of Cancer Treatment, Dwight Kaufman, PhD, MD, moved closer to home to enter private practice.

Project Advancing Personalized Medicine

Jude study helps transfer genetic knowledge into clinical practice With the help of the thousands of infinitesimal clues to the origin and treatment of disease that have been excavated since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, doctors and researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are discovering new information about the genetic variations of medicine in humans.

September 2014

New Hybrid Operating Room Opens

A new hybrid operating room at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital is bringing state-of-the-art surgical technology to rural West Tennessee. In mid-August, the hospital will open its new 1,000 square foot hybrid surgical suite designed ...

Teaming Up to Turn the Tide on Pancreatic CancerTeaming Up to Turn the Tide on Pancreatic Cancer

Deadly and defiant, pancreatic cancer was one of the major oncologic threats Congress hoped to address with passage of the “Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act,” which was signed into law at the beginning of 2013.

Tennessee Facing Litigation Over Medicaid Practices

Delays in TennCare Determinations at Heart of Lawsuit Tennessee became one of the first states in the nation to face litigation over its Medicaid practices in the post-reform era when three advocacy groups filed suit on behalf of clients they say have waited far beyond the legal limit for a determination of TennCare eligibility.