“Waking up was like being caught in a bad dream; only it wasn’t a dream,” Rick recalls today. Rick doesn’t remember October 10, 2007, and he’s thankful for that today. On the way home from work on that fateful Wednesday afternoon, Rick’s vehicle was hit by a 110-car train, which forced his [...]
Starr is one of the tiniest patients to be born in Regional One Health's NICU at 14 ounces. One of the tiniest babies ever born at Regional One Health is truly a star of the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Starr Farris weighed an astonishing 14 ounces, or roughly the weight [...]
While Cal’s weekend trip with friends from college had ended, his journey had just begun. In April of 2007, Cal Trout was invited to attend a two-day music festival with a friend from college, his friend’s pregnant wife and their three-year-old daughter. After spending an amazing weekend together, the group decided to have a [...]
"We're very thankful," Elizabeth says. "I just feel like we owe so much to all the staff there for saving Reid's life." Elizabeth Scearce of Martin, Tennessee was having an easy first pregnancy. But when she went for her routine 36-week ultrasound, her physician discovered that her baby had fluid around his [...]
Mark and BJ were overjoyed when they learned they were having twins, who were delivered in the High-Risk Obstetrics Program at Regional One Health. Do you believe in miracles? BJ and Mark Mazurkiewicz of Corinth, Mississippi, certainly do. After a long struggle with infertility issues, the couple received the first of several [...]
Steve was treated for multiple life-threatening injuries by staff in the Elvis Presley Trauma Center. 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 [...]
Mildred is thankful for the care and family she has received as a patient in our Adult Special Care Center. Mildred Richards has been a patient at Regional One Health’s Adult Special Care Center for 16 years, living proof that advances in HIV treatment are giving patients a new lease on life. [...]
Phil was heading back home to Nashville when he saw another car go off the southbound lane of 385 and land directly in front of him. “It was like something out of an action movie,” Phil Barbee said, reflecting on his car accident. Barbee was driving in the northbound lane of Tenn. [...]
The Halls moved from London to Memphis in order to deliver their identical triplets Wylder, Colton and Leo at Regional One Health. “Pure joy,” Ashton Hall says, beaming. That was his first reaction when he found out that his wife Jennifer was pregnant with identical triplets. “We found out at 4:00 in [...]
“I THOUGHT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER WAS ONLY A PLACE TO GO IF YOU WERE IN A CAR WRECK OR SOME TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, BUT WE LEARNED FIRST-HAND THAT THIS HOSPITAL SYSTEM AND MEDICAL TEAM ARE MUCH MORE THAN THAT. IF YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONE IS BURNED, IT IS ABSOLUTELY THE ONLY PLACE YOU WANT [...]