Healthcare

Development News “The need for accessible, affordable mental health care is more apparent than ever, and we are looking forward to serving the greater Memphis community,” says MHC CEO Pam Womack. Healthy Communities

Nonprofit to provide mental health care to Memphians that might otherwise not have access

High Ground TeamFriday, January 13, 2023
Feature Story Mural by Jamond Bullocks in Frayser, part of Urban Art Commission's "Stand Up for Our Streets" project in 2019. (submitted) Arts and Culture

Visual artists: Apply by Feb 18 to work with High Ground!

Friday, January 21, 2022
Feature Story Dr. Larita Taylor is the author of "Nurture for the Nurturer," a guide for new breastfeeding moms. (submitted) Healthy Communities

A nurturing endeavor: Larita Taylor's book provides encouragement for breastfeeding moms

Deborah Gaddy-RobertsonThursday, December 9, 2021
Feature Story (Lisa Ferdinando, Wikimedia Commons) Healthy Communities

Need a COVID-19 test? Want to get your vaccine? Where to go in Shelby County.

Jeff Hulett and Sarah RushakoffThursday, September 23, 2021
Feature Story West Cancer Center is one of four oncology centers that are joining together with biotechnology firm Genentech to improve racial diversity in clinic research trials. (Meghan Aislin) Healthy Communities

Memphis-based West Cancer Center joins national alliance to close diversity gap in medical research

Meghan AslinWednesday, July 14, 2021
Feature Story The doulas of Naturally Nurtured Birth Services are (left to right): Shanille Bowens, Tamera Stegall, Abeni Randle, Rhonda Okoth, andJacqueline Oselenin. (Ziggy Mack) Healthy Communities

Shanille Bowens is helping other Black women in Memphis craft their dream birth experience

Thursday, March 25, 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 maskscovid Healthy Communities

The world is drowning in used face masks. Should we turn them into fuel?

Thursday, September 24, 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 Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Healthy Communities

Methodist-Le Bonheur creates new role to reduce Mid-South health disparities

Cole BradleyThursday, July 9, 2020
Feature Story (stock photo) Healthy Communities

Could COVID-19 end in better nurses?

Cole BradleyThursday, May 28, 2020
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