Healthcare

Feature Story Kaila Matthews, owner of the new WhatTheDoula, is a native Memphian and birth doula. (Submitted) Entrepreneurship

Women Working It: Doula Kaila Matthews helps expectant parents get what they want

Brandi HunterThursday, January 7, 2021
Feature Story Christine Jones and her mother Irma (behind) walk down the hall toward an exam room while being seen at the Guthrie Primary Care Clinic in Smokey City, North Memphis. (Andrea Morales, 2017). Healthy Communities

Healthcare has never been equitable and the pandemic is proof

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyThursday, November 12, 2020
Feature Story Kenzie Cleaves stands inside a vacant unit in her North Memphis apartment complex that she said has been unsecured for over a year. Unsafe housing conditions can increase COVID-19-related deaths. (Ziggy Mack) Healthy Communities

In poor communities, toxic housing is a risk factor for COVID-19 deaths

Chris Jones & Cole BradleyWednesday, September 30, 2020
Feature Story School nurse Patricia McCraw prepares medication for a student at A.B. Hill Elementary. McCraw is part of a school nurse pilot program facilitated by Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Shelby County Schools, and Urban Child Institute. (Cat Evans) Healthy Communities

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy good health. Experts discuss health inequity in Memphis.

Cole BradleyFriday, August 21, 2020
Feature Story Frank Johnson looks towards North Memphis' Penn A Kem, LLC chemical plant on the left hand side of the road. On the right is Douglass High School. (Ziggy Mack) Healthy Communities

The Pandemics: Decades of environmental racism is making COVID-19 more deadly in Black communities

Baris Gursakal & Cole BradleyThursday, August 20, 2020
Feature Story Twenty-year veteran Shane Howell (left) stops by with paperwork as Private Michael Pence (right) works the Station 18 desk where crew members field emergency calls and help citizen who walk in with an emergency. (Ziggy Mack) Healthy Communities

901RideChoice is reducing non-emergency calls to 911

Andrea ValenzuelaMonday, August 10, 2020
Feature Story Dr. Susan Miranda conducts research for University of Tennessee Health Sciences Centers' Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014. Healthy Communities

UTHSC hosting second virtual coronavirus symposium July 28

Cole BradleyThursday, July 23, 2020
Feature Story The PepsiCo Foundation has pledge $7 million for nationwide COVID-19 relief, including $500,000 to the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. (Banco de Alimentos Quito, PepsiCo Foundation) Healthy Communities

Pepsi puts $500,000 toward COVID-19 relief in Memphis

Cole BradleyThursday, July 16, 2020
Feature Story (stock photo) Healthy Communities

Could COVID-19 end in better nurses?

Cole BradleyThursday, May 28, 2020
Feature Story Eileen Castine (seated) and her partner Ricci at their home. Self portrait by Eileen Castine. Self-portrait by Castine. Entrepreneurship

First COVID-19, now cancer, threaten to tank couple’s pet-sitting business

Friday, May 22, 2020
Feature Story (Forever Ready Productions) Kids and Education

Video: Le Bonheur's five easy ways to keep kids healthy from home

Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Feature Story Explore Bike Share is offering free rides through April 19, 2020 as a way to help Memphians get out of the house and stay active while maintaining social distancing requirements under the Safer at Home shelter in place order. (Submitted) Healthy Communities

Explore Bike Share helps Memphis "Ride Out" the pandemic with free bike rentals through April 19

Ashley DavisWednesday, March 25, 2020
Feature Story Michelle Pleasant leads her class in counting at the Harwood Center's Cordova location on January 27, 2020. Harwood serves children ages 18 months to six years who have been diagnosed with a developmental delay or disability. (Ziggy Mack) Kids and Education

Harwood Center helps kids with autism, developmental disabilities build skills for lifelong success

Baris GursakalFriday, January 31, 2020
Feature Story On February 7, “A Family Affair” will feature music, discussions, and games aimed at raising awareness of the need for organ donation among black Mid-Southerners. (Mid-South Transplant Foundation) Healthy Communities

Memphis needs more African American organ donors.

A.J Dugger III and Cole BradleyThursday, January 30, 2020
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