Regional One Health has joined the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators’ effort to promote Brain Injury Awareness Month throughout March. Regional One Health is participating in Uniting for Brain Injury, an annual March awareness campaign to educate the public about brain injury and resulting symptoms that may affect an individual’s ability to [...]
One person can make a difference. That was the idea behind the recent Stop the Bleed training course that taught participants basic bleeding control techniques. Peter Fischer, MD, MS, NREMT-P, FACS With simple steps, it only takes one person to stop a bleed, said event organizer Peter Fischer, MD, a trauma surgeon [...]
Did you know stopping a bleed can save a life? One person can make a difference. Join the Elvis Presley Trauma Center team at this city-wide training course to learn what you can do to help save lives in an emergency situation. Click here to register. Watch Dr. Fischer's preview of what attendees will [...]
“When a patient comes it might look like organized chaos, but our team knows what to do and begins work immediately.” Take a look at the amazing work done inside our Elvis Presley Trauma Center, the only designated Level 1 Trauma Center for the Mid-South. This means a multidisciplinary team of highly trained specialists [...]
Hope Clayburn has a couple of jobs that require her full attention during the nighttime hours. One, she’s a Trauma ICU nurse at Regional One Health. But when not working as part of the elite trauma team at Regional One Health, she often is found playing flute and saxophone and singing on stages across [...]
Ed Castellon rides a motorcycle to work, plays golf to let off steam and treasures his Scuba adventures around the world. Maybe those outside interests explain how this 36-year nursing veteran has spent 34 of those years in critical care, particularly working with patients dealing with intense situations. He jokes that it possibly speaks [...]
Attend our Nursing Social View Open Positions Meet our A-Team Nurses What’s in a name? For “Trauma” Tommy Willette, it’s life. Willette is a trauma nurse at the Regional One Health Elvis Presley Trauma Center. His role isn’t easy to define, although multitasker who thinks outside the box while [...]
UT Regional One Physicians is proud to introduce trauma surgeons Dr. Dina Filiberto and Dr. Richard Lewis to our practice. Drs. Filiberto and Lewis are part of the team of trauma surgeons at the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, which is designated as a Level 1 Trauma Center in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. It’s the only [...]
The Phone Call Every Police Officer's Spouse Dreads On February 13, Renita Couch of Southaven got the phone call every police officer's spouse dreads, her husband, Derrick, a police officer in Clarksdale, Mississippi, had been shot by a robbery suspect. INSTANTLY, EVERYTHING SEEMED SO SURREAL. THEY TOLD US HE WAS BEING AIRLIFTED TO REGIONAL [...]
National Brain Injury Awareness Day is March 21. On this day, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) encourages individuals to wear green and show your support of "Not Alone." The "Not Alone" campaign is designed to educate the general public about the incidence of brain injury and the needs of people with brain injuries and their [...]