ONE Night 2015 Draws Largest Crowd Ever For Annual Gala More than 900 Mid-Southerners supported the life-saving work of the Foundation by attending ONE Night 2015 on Saturday, March 28 at the Cook Convention Center. As the Foundation’s largest fundraiser of the year, ONE Night helps provide the state-of-the-art medical equipment and specialized training [...]
OUR CIRCLES OF GIVING The Cornerstone Circle - acknowledges donors who give $100 - $999 annually. The President’s Circle - acknowledges donors who give $1,000 - $4,999 annually. The Founder’s Circle - acknowledges donors who give $5,000 or $9,999 annually. The Pillar Society - acknowledges those individuals, corporations and foundations that have given $10,000 or more annually. The [...]
Established To Recognize Donors Who Make Planned Gifts John Gaston was a successful businessman and philanthropist in Memphis during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Born in France in 1828, Gaston migrated to the United States sometime in the 1850s and landed a job as a waiter at the famed Delmonico’s restaurant in New [...]
“OUR NEW MEMBERS REPRESENT THE BEST OF THE MID-SOUTH. THEIR EXPERIENCE AND OVERALL DEDICATION TO THIS COMMUNITY WILL MAKE EACH OF THEM AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE FOUNDATION’S SUCCESS FOR YEARS TO COME.” - TAMMIE RITCHEY, REGIONAL ONE HEALTH FOUNDATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Our new board member respresnet a wide range of industries and experience from across [...]
Perfectly Balancing Treatment Delivery & Patient Comfort Thanks to our generous supporters, Regional One Health Foundation recently helped provide funding to consolidate and improve our healthcare system’s infusion services. Imagine receiving a blood transfusion or antibiotics sitting in an uncomfortable chair with just a blanket to stay warm as a TV broadcasts one snowy [...]
How One Elvis Fan's Cookbook Has Raised Donations Each August, 81-year-old Wilma Wooten loads up the car with her daughter Melanie and makes the 650-mile drive from her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Memphis for Elvis Week. Odds are, you’ve seen her at some point, selling t-shirts and taking donations outside of the [...]
How the Regional One Health Trauma Center Saved One Man’s Life On April 10, 2010, while Jennifer and Steve Helffrich were spending a typical weekend with friends doing what they love — jumping out of airplanes — the unthinkable happened. Steve may not remember spinning out of control and falling some 14,000 feet to the ground when [...]
Traumatic Brain Injury Service Helps With Patient Comebacks When Mary Alice Snowden started her day on January 23, 2014, she had no idea her life was about to be turned upside down. Just minutes after picking up her two children from preschool, they were involved in a serious car accident. Miraculously, her children were [...]
Funding Research Leads to World-Class Care Orthopedics is just one example of the Trauma Center’s impact on trauma medicine nationally. Orthopedic surgeons perform life-saving procedures that can include repair of a neck fracture, broken limbs, dislocations and many other traumatic injuries. Because of this tremendous impact, Regional One Health Foundation provided funding for Dr. John Weinlein, a leading orthopedic surgeon at Campbell Clinic and [...]
The Elvis Presley Trauma Center, designated as a Level 1 Trauma Center in the states of Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas has saved tens of thousands of lives in its 32 years. No two days are ever quite the same for Dr. Martin Croce, medical director of the Elvis Presley Trauma Center at Regional One [...]
