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Reginald W. Coopwood, MD
When I’m in my office at Regional One Health, I can hear the helicopters coming in, landing on the
roof to bring patients to our trauma center. Every time, I think about not only the patient, but the
terrified loved ones who were ripped out of a normal day and dropped into a nightmare.
But I also think about how those helicopters are racing those patients to expert medical care, and to
doctors and nurses with compassion and skill. They’re racing them toward hope.
It’s the same hope a family feels when a premature baby who would otherwise be too fragile to survive is
cared for in our NICU, the same hope a burn victim experiences when they walk into the healing cocoon of
our hyperbaric oxygen chamber, the same hope a couple holds onto when our high-risk pregnancy team
describes an innovative surgery that could save their unborn baby. It’s a hope that keeps people going
during the toughest times of their lives.
And it’s a hope that you, our generous donors, help to provide.
As I listen to those helicopters, I also think about what would happen if there weren’t men and women
atop a rooftop in downtown Memphis waiting to provide a second chance at life. Without Regional One
Health, thousands of families would be forever broken rather than welcoming home survivors. Tens of
thousands of parents would be mourning lost babies rather than raising their children. Countless burn
victims would be living with devastating wounds rather than returning to fulfilling lives. Mothers would
be saying goodbye to babies they never got to know rather than cradling precious newborns in their arms.
Regional One Health improves lives, and our impact extends far beyond Shelby County or even the sixstate
region our specialized services reach. That is because our impact is not limited to the individual. We
have trained over half the doctors in Tennessee and continue to build the next generation of physicians.
We are advocating for innovation to improve health care for everyone. We are enhancing care for patients
with the most complex needs to ease the personal and societal burden of frequent emergency room visits
and extended hospital stays.
Donors like you support our ability to effect positive change, both in individual lives and in the overall
field of health care. Because of you, we can continue to bring in the best minds and give them the
resources they need to do the toughest, most impactful work of their careers.
And because of you, when I sit at my desk and hear those helicopters come in, I can know that they’re
heading exactly where they need to go – to a place of calm amid chaos, a port in the storm, a team
prepared to help when people are thrust from normal to nightmare. To hope.
Reginald W. Coopwood, MD
President and CEO
Regional One Health
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Dr. Jan Young
When Regional One Health leaders approached us in 2016 about supporting
a new model of care for our city’s most vulnerable residents, we listened.
At the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, our mission is effective philanthropy, guided by a special legacy
of service for the public good. “Our moral imperative is to never forget to serve those who live in the
shadows: the poor, the sick; the handicapped, the abandoned.”
Their aspirational promise was that the ONE Health initiative would address more than health, meeting
patients where they are and helping with housing, food, employment and more. Recognizing the
challenge organizations face to coordinate resources more effectively, their plan to have skilled social
workers and clinicians work with community partners was not only compelling but in alignment with the
goals of the Foundation.
In 2017, the Assisi Foundation Board approved a three-year grant to support ONE Health to initiate the
strategy to address not only the presenting health issue but the additional complexities of managing
contributing social determinants. With ONE Health, Regional One Health built a model of whole-person
care initially focused on “super-utilizers” – patients who make the most emergency department visits
and inpatient hospital stays.
The original vision for ONE Health has come to fruition and is making a transformative, life-changing
impact on numerous people throughout our community.
To date, more than 200 patients have enrolled in ONE Health and worked with the complex care team to
create their health and social management plans. The early results are impressive. ONE Health has over
60 “graduates,” stable patients who are now able to live more independently. Regional One Health is
seeing significant drops in emergency visits and inpatient admissions among ONE Health patients, as well
as big improvements in common health indicators like blood pressure and blood sugar screenings. The
ONE Health team delivered on the promise.
The Assisi Foundation joins others nationally to acknowledge the noteworthy and exceptional efforts of
Regional One Health Foundation and the ONE Health team in creating systems to ensure the long-term
health and wellbeing of our community.
With the combined support of generous donors like you, Regional One Health will continue to build a
brighter, healthier future for all Memphians.
Dr. Jan Young
Executive Director
The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bob Moore, Chairman
Michael Hess, Vice-Chair
Scott Franklin, Secretary
Tim Clay, Treasurer
Alison Barton
Chris Bird
Trey Carter
Eric Epperson
Lavelle Fitch
Jodie Gilmore
Helen Gronauer
Steve Guinn
Lee Harper
Lisa Jehl
R.E. Linkous
Michael Nichols
Henry Nixon, Jr.
Frank Quinn
Jenny Robertson
Paulo Teixeira
STAFF
Tammie Ritchey
Senior Vice President
Chief Development Officer
Sheilla Brown
Development Associate
Mary Catherine Burke
Director of Events
Patrick Byrne
Director of Development
Rachel Alkire
Development Officer, Major Gifts
Jevonte C. Porter
Development Officer, Annual Giving
Marsha Evans
Foundation Operations Manager
CONTRIBUTORS
Kelly Josephsen, Jason Wommack
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ONE Night
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Honor Roll of Donors
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Employee Giving
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At Work
The support of our donors helps Regional One Health provide world-class
medical treatment to our community. In fiscal year 2019, the Regional One
Health Foundation was able to grant more than $3 million to various needs
thanks to your generosity. Here is a snapshot of how these gifts improved
services and patient care in departments throughout the system:
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): 45 NICView Cameras for our
NICU babies. These small cameras attach to bassinettes and beds,
allowing parents to view their baby securely from their phone
anytime, anywhere.
As our NICU celebrated its 50th
anniversary in 2018, its graduates joined
Regional One Health doctors and nurses to reflect on a legacy of giving
over 45,000 critically ill babies a second chance at life. Your donations
have been crucial to supporting not only these fragile infants, but the entire
family. Read more on page 20.
Critical Care Waiting Room: 38 sleep recliners
Inpatient Rehab: Bladder scanner, 14 sleep recliners, 2 sleeper sofas
Subacute Care Unit: Hoyer lift, bladder scanner, 6 sleep recliners, the “It’s
Never 2 Late” technology, which helps patients and families use computers
regardless of physical and intellectual abilities
Burn: Accuvein, 5 lidco monitors
The Foundation helps ensure the Firefighters Burn Center has the latest
technology and training. For Samir Alniswan, who spent six months at the
burn center and endured over 40 surgeries, it was the difference between
life and death. Read more on page 28.
Perioperative Services: Lithotripsy system, new tracking cabinet,
new ultrasound
General Intensive Care Unit (GICU): Portable ultrasound machine, bladder
scanner, 5 CRRT machines, which provide a form of dialysis in which the
patient’s blood is removed and filtered
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Regional One Health’s High-Risk Obstetrics practice is the only one of its kind
in the region, and your donations help our team care for both mothers and
babies. For Gail and Jeff Duncan, that meant what felt at times like a science
fiction movie has resulted in a life full of the normal joys of parenthood.
Read more on page 24.
Trauma Stepdown Unit: 10 new Stryker chairs, bladder scanner
Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU): 2 bladder scanners, 2 Swan boxes,
which provide more intuitive, meaningful monitoring of blood pressure and
heart function in critical patients
ONE Health: More than $779,000
Our donors help ONE Health care for patients’ medical and social needs.
Data shows ONE Health is succeeding, but it is the stories of patients like
Alaenor and Shanyn that truly highlight just what a blessing our complex
care team is for vulnerable Memphians. Read more on page 10.
Environmental Services: New Clorox UV Light System
Ambulatory Women’s Services: 2 new ultrasound machines
Center for Innovation: More than $186,000
At the Center for Innovation, the Foundation supports work that can make
health care better not only within our own walls, but across the globe. The
innovators at Cast21 and SweetBio are at the forefront of that effort thanks to
the access they’ve received at Regional One Health. Read more on page 16.
Pharmacy: The Foundation has paid more than $200,000 in co-pays
for our most vulnerable patients this year. This includes patients in our
Adult Special Care Center, Sickle Cell, primary care sites and many infusion
patients.
Trauma: Creation of a debriefing room
Our Elvis Presley Trauma Center is the only Level-1 Trauma Center in a
150-mile radius, so grants from the Foundation have literally helped save
lives across the Mid-South. Haley McCommon is grateful to count herself
among them after a terrifying ATV accident took her from carefree 19-year-old
to fighting for her life. Read more on page 32.
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Financial Report (July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019)
FY2019 DOLLARS GRANTED TO REGIONAL ONE HEALTH
$1,441,924.00
Other technology and equipment
purchases / training / staff support
$30,000.00 (0.9%)
$30,600.00 (0.9%)
Breast Cancer Screenings
$33,000.00 (1%)
Nursing Professional Development
Diabetes Staff Position
$47,841.00 (1.5%)
Equipment for Emergency Department
$65,825.00
Equipment for Burn Center
$102,025.00
High-Risk OB
Birthing beds and other necessities
2015-2019 Total Contributions to Regional One Health Foundation
FY2015
FY2016
FY2017
FY2018
FY2019
$1,255,747.30
$1,319,771.00
$1,757,911.23
$2,683,689.24
$2,249,124.71
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$3,243,638.99
FY2019 DOLLARS GRANTED
to Regional One Health
9.9%
2% 3.1% 5.7%
6.3%
$322,459.00
$204,175.00
Trauma Center: new technology,
equipment; training for nurses
$186,391.66
Center for Innovation
NICU: NicView 2 Camera
System, new beds,
care monitors
44.5%
24%
$779,398.33
ONE Health
(Population Health Strategy)
1%
1.5%
0.9%
0.9%
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ONE Night Gala
35.3%
25.6%
FY2019
CONTRIBUTIONS
to Regional One Health
Foundation
2.4%
4.7%
9.4%
22.1%
$793,924.00
$575,892.10
$497,500.00
Community Donations
Grants
FY2019 CONTRIBUTIONS by Source
42.4%
$952,734.00
Corporations
$779,589.00
Individuals
FY2019 DONORS by Source
94.3%
1,936
Total Donors
1,825
Individuals
105
Corporations
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5.4%
0.3%
34.7%
$386,394.00
Foundations/Estates
17.2%
Other
5.8%
$130,407.71
$210,722.54
$105,701.21
$53,380.40
Employee Donations
ONE Round
Elvis Presley License Plate
and Store Sales
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BSN, RN (left) works closely with patients like
Shanyn (right) to address medical and social needs.
“They take care of everything...medications, internal
medicine appointments, specialist appointments,
transportation – I mean everything!” Shanyn says.
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Healthier
One Relationship at a Time
With the Regional One Health Foundation’s support,
ONE Health is addressing complex needs to lift up
our city’s most vulnerable residents.
By The Reverend Alaenor Faye London
“I got a blessing,” said the soft-spoken voice coming from the woman with
the big personality. This was her first response to my question, “How did
you come into contact with the ONE Health team at Regional One Health?”
When I met Shanyn for the first time, I didn’t know she had celebrated six
months sober about 72 hours before our meeting. I also didn’t know she was
only eight days away from moving into stable housing after walking away
from 25 years of active addiction and, as she put it, “a man who wasn’t very
nice to me.”
As Shanyn spoke to me about her shame and how she found herself losing
significant relationships with family, friends and even her faith because of
feelings of “unworthiness,” I began to understand something about her.
She is the blessing of which she thought herself unworthy.
Shanyn told me that after seeking detox and short-term intensive outpatient
therapy, she became violently ill and was rushed to the Regional One Health
Emergency Department.
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medications, but he could not afford them because she has no health
insurance. When he asked if there was anyone he could talk to about the
cost of the medications, the pharmacy contacted Megan Williams, manager
of ONE Health, who promptly fixed the problem.
Williams was able to offer coverage for the cost of the medications because
Shanyn qualified for the ONE Health program. Williams then introduced
Shanyn to a social worker, Renesa Clemons, who could help her deal with
ongoing issues. This moment of intervention, Shanyn tells me, is what she
means when she says, “I got a blessing.”
I contend that, while this was indeed a blessing, it was just one of many.
As we spoke, Shanyn described a profound loneliness that nearly strangled
her as she plodded through each day. Her body language showed shame
as she downplayed her sobriety by saying “these six little months,” but
brightened up when she began to recall her first session with her ONE
Health social worker.
“During our first meeting, Renesa pulled out flashcards with different needs
on them and asked me to put them in order of importance to me. That was
I’m not ashamed anymore. I even went back to my
old church and they were happy to see me!
SHANYN, ONE HEALTH PATIENT
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work,” Shanyn said. “And you know they really work as a team. Renesa has
never once told me ‘no,’ because if she can’t do it, she will get help from
one of the other ladies and they will work it out together.”
For nearly an hour, Shanyn and I – both 45, both women of faith, both
having struggled with addiction and family trauma, both having felt
invisible except for our mistakes, both having nearly died as a result of
attempts to self-medicate and both having received truly patient-centered
care for the first time when we met as patients of the ONE Health team –
cried tears of joy and relief as we realized that by simply surveying how we
perceive our needs and helping us fulfill as many of those as possible, ONE
Health might literally have saved our lives. At that moment, sitting together
sharing our experience, I realized how her life story blessed me.
The ONE Health team helps patients navigate what can be an exhausting
maze of medical and social services necessary to create and maintain healthy
lives. Shanyn might have said it best: “They take care of everything...
medications, internal medicine appointments, specialist appointments,
transportation – I mean everything!”
They do it with a humility that allows them to partner with other
community organizations to fully meet the needs of their clients whose life
situations and needs are the most complex. The ONE Health team has an indepth
understanding of how health is impacted by external factors and how
mitigating or eliminating those factors creates space for a healthier life.
ONE Health team
members Megan
Williams (left)
and Susan Cooper
(right), help complex
care patients like
Shanyn (center)
make fewer trips to
the emergency room
and avoid inpatient
hospital stays.
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about building
positive relationships,
and Shanyn said
Renesa Clemons,
LCSW, impressed
her immediately by
taking the time to
talk to her about
prioritizing her needs.
As a person who entered this program over a year ago because of physical
health issues and has dealt with my addiction, I can say with full-throated
authority that the relationship-building approach is so much more effective
than the shaming and blaming approach of most healthcare agencies.
ONE Health is making sure they hear the voices of their patients while
attempting to craft the best care possible for people who find themselves
in difficult situations.
We are people. We deserve good healthcare like everyone else. For us, good
healthcare may mean digging a little deeper to find the root cause of the
drivers of utilization. I find myself holding on more each day because I
know Megan, Renesa and my therapist at Alliance Healthcare Services are
pulling for me. This is because of the relationship we have built together.
This relationship-building approach also finds its expression in Shanyn’s
life, partially through the nonjudgmental model of complex care. “I’m not
ashamed anymore. I even went back to my old church and they were happy
to see me!” she said.
My true calling is to reduce stigma around illness and recognize it is
harmful to the health of the individual and the community. As
a minister who lives with alcoholism and several other severe
mental and physical health diagnoses, I am grateful every day for
these professionals who make their work just personal enough
to be useful. My favorite example of this is the joy – the genuine
joy – they express when one of their patients gets housed, finds a
job, finishes their GED or celebrates a sobriety birthday.
As Shanyn and I cried together, we both agreed this treatment
model deserves more attention.
The Reverend Alaenor Faye London is currently a ONE Health patient. She is an
advocate for health care and the founder and primary contributor at The Whole
Human: A Movement from the Margins.
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AVOIDED
NUMBERS
BY THE
224
PATIENTS
APRIL 2018 – JUNE 2019
35
65 OF
224
HAVE GRADUATED, DEEMED TO
HAVE ACHIEVED “SELF-SUFFICIENCY”
HOMELESS
ENROLLEES
ARE NOW
IN STABLE
HOUSING
18
$7,486,023
452
AVOIDED
IN TOTAL COSTS
RIDES
VIA UBER, TAXI OR SPECIALTY TRANSPORT VEHICLE
PROVIDED TO
124
ENROLLEES TO CLINIC VISITS
PUTTING CARE AT THE CENTER 2019
Regional One Health cohosted Putting Care at the Center 2019, the annual conference of the National Center for
Complex Health and Social Needs – a recognition of the success of ONE Health.
The conference, held November 13-15 at the Peabody Memphis, brought together 700 national leaders to
outline the next steps in the emerging field of complex care so they can achieve better outcomes for patients
with complex needs.
“We firmly believe every Memphian deserves great health,” said Regional One Health Senior Vice President
Susan Cooper. “The issues complex patients face can’t all be solved by a health system, so we are building real,
meaningful partnerships and embracing new partnerships for the future development of this program and the
improved health of our patients.”
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306
75.4
INPATIENT ADMISSIONS
REDUCTION
2,664
78.6
INPATIENT DAYS
REDUCTION
AVOIDED
1,339
68.8
REDUCTION
60
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISITS
QUALIFIED PATIENTS
SECURED INSURANCE BENEFITS
RESULTING IN
$2.28M
NEW REIMBURSEMENTS TO
REGIONAL ONE HEALTH
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Ashley Moy, CEO of Cast21, embrace disruptive thinking
as a way to improve health care for patients everywhere.
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׉	 7cassandra://vu2o_uNGyAVqH9s7NcDWqMyx5aycgl3hrWJoJJpHdfo&` ^AhKbZP׉EWhat is the
Future of
Health Care?
Regional One Health doctors and patients are
helping answer that question thanks to the
Center for Innovation.
Regional One Health’s Center for Innovation opened in 2016 based on
the idea that thinking outside the box is uniquely important in health
care, where finding a better way can improve how doctors care for their
patients and reveal new ways to provide hope and healing.
It was a bold move for a health care system to make, but it is thriving
thanks to support from senior leadership and the Regional One Health
Foundation. “It’s outside the norms to give access to innovators,” said
Alejandra Alvarez, Center for Innovation Director. “Health care is typically
a closed environment. But we believe care is not just about what’s good for
Regional One Health, it’s about what’s good for the industry.”
It’s a philosophy that is proving attractive to entrepreneurs.
The center’s spirit of discovery first caught the attention of Cast21, a
company that had created a new orthotic to heal bone fractures without the
inconvenience of a traditional cast. Their sleek webbed sleeve — which is
breathable, waterproof and lightweight — had earned certification as an
FDA Class I medical device. The time had come to test and refine it.
Cast21 CEO Ashley Moy said the Center for Innovation stepped up to the
plate. Over the past year, Regional One Health has given her company a
chance to not only see real doctors and patients use the orthotic but to also
learn about everything from how hospitals vet and purchase products to how
they train their staff to use them.
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is testing an
orthotic device that
they hope will heal
fractures without
the hassle of a
traditional cast.
“Feedback is extremely valuable to us,” Moy explained. “We’ve already
made changes in light of what they’ve said.”
Moy and VP of Engineering Veronica Hogg started by training surgeons
to apply and remove the product, a simple process that takes only 10-15
minutes and leaves the patient with an effective — and cool-looking —
protective device in a color of their choosing.
When the surgeons raised questions, such as how to apply the sleeve on a
trauma patient who is lying flat rather than sitting, Moy and Hogg found
answers. Soon enough, the device was ready to be used on patients, who
were also encouraged to provide feedback.
We believe care is not just about what’s good
for Regional One Health, it’s about what’s good
for the industry.
Marijo Cox welcomed that opportunity after she broke her wrist in a car
accident. Marijo was initially fitted with a splint from her fingers to over her
elbow: “It was big and cumbersome,” she said, remembering how much she
had been dreading being stuck in it for weeks.
Then she was offered the Cast21 device. “The doctor brought it in and told
me it’s much more comfortable, it’s lighter, you can shower in it, and asked
me if I’d be interested. I took one look at the big cast I was wearing and one
look at the one in his hand and I said, ‘Yes, please!’”
Marijo said her experience was excellent, and the only problem was minor
irritation around her fingers. Based on her feedback, the Cast21 team again
jumped into action, making changes to enhance patient comfort. As they
get closer to taking their product to market, Moy said they are in a better
position thanks to the access they received at Regional One Health.
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is breathable,
lightweight and
can even get wet.
Regional One
Health patients who
have tried it give it
positive reviews.
The Cast21 team trained Regional One Health surgeons on how to
apply their device on patients.
As Cast21 moves forward, so too does the Center for Innovation.
Alvarez recently announced a partnership with SweetBio, which
bioengineered a new material using Manuka honey and created a wound
care device with the potential to combine the effectiveness of an advanced
dressing with the convenience of a traditional dressing.
At Regional One Health, they’ll test the product on the management of
wounds such as ulcers, surgical sites and more. Kayla Rodriguez Graff,
SweetBio cofounder and CEO, calls it the next phase of her company’s story
— and one that wouldn’t happen without the Center for Innovation.
Alvarez is equally excited, noting it’s another step toward the center’s ultimate
goal of creating an environment where Regional One Health takes the lead in
turning Memphis into a hub for creating the health care of the future: “We
want to build an ecosystem in Memphis that attracts innovators to improve
health care and help the city grow. We’re successful if they’re successful.”
What they do: Utilize Manuka honey to bioengineer
medical devices for healing wounds such as
abrasions, ulcers, trauma injuries and surgical sites
sweetbi
Products: Apis, an FDA-approved resorbable membrane in which honey improves healing
Headquarters: CommuniTech Research Park, Memphis
Founded: 2015 by sister and brother Kayla Rodriguez-Graff and Isaac Rodriguez
Key achievements: Springboard Enterprises Health Innovation Hub 2019 alum, ZeroTo510
and LaunchTN graduate, finalist in Steve Case’s 2018 Rise of the Rest tour, featured in
Forbes magazine and on 60 Minutes
Learn more: sweetbio.com
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Of Life
Dr. Sheldon B. Korones founded the Regional One Health
neonatal intensive care unit in 1968 to give every baby a
chance at quality care and a healthy life.
Fifty years ago, when a baby was born too early in Memphis, the odds
of survival were based heavily on his or her zip code. The city’s infant
mortality rate was alarmingly high, especially in its poorer neighborhoods.
It took a man on a mission to change that for the better.
Dr. Sheldon B. Korones believed no baby should suffer or die simply because
their family could not afford quality health care. In 1968, appalled by the
disparity in care for the city’s rich and poor, he gave up a lucrative private
practice to open a NICU at Memphis’ public hospital.
The legacy he built through countless hours of personal effort and sheer
force of will continues at the facility that now bears his name, Regional One
Health’s Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center. And it is a legacy that is felt
in homes throughout the Mid-South.
It is there every time Amanda Bass watches son Owen run around like the
healthy toddler he is, in every hug Angela Sims gives daughter Nori Grace, in
every family dinner the Actons sit down to together, in thousands of MidSouth
families that are complete thanks to expert NICU care.
Many of those families joined Regional One Health last year at an event to
celebrate the newborn center’s half-century mark.
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yet one of the most
supported and loved
journeys we have been
through.
AMANDA BASS
MOTHER OF NICU GRADUATE
Now under the leadership of Medical Director Ajay Tatati, MD, it has treated
over 45,000 premature and critically-ill babies using the revolutionary
interdisciplinary approach Dr. Korones spearheaded 50 years ago when
neonatology was still a fledgling medical specialty. Expert doctors and
nurses are joined by specially trained social workers to provide medical
care and help families cope with challenges of caring for a premature or
critically-ill infant.
For the Bass family, the anniversary was a chance to celebrate 18-monthold
Owen with the men and women who saved his life. “We thanked them
and we hugged them and told them how much we appreciated their love and
care for our child when we couldn’t do it,” Amanda said.
Amanda was hospitalized at Regional One Health during her entire high-risk
pregnancy and was in intensive care after giving birth, and she knows it was
harrowing for her husband. But doctors and nurses walked at his side every
step of the way: “It is one of the hardest yet one of the most supported and
loved journeys we have been through,” she said.
Angela Sims marked the 50th while watching Nori Grace have a butterfly
painted on her face.
Angela Sims was terrified the first time
she saw her daughter connected to
tubes and machines in the NICU – but
the support she received helped her get
past her fears and help Nori Grace thrive.
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Angela admitted she at first had a hard time visiting Nori Grace in the NICU.
She was terrified by her daughter’s tiny size and all the machines she was
connected to. But that fear eased its grip, nudged aside by support from
doctors and nurses. “You all took away the nervousness that I had,” Angela
said. “You made me feel so supported during that difficult time in my life.”
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Cameron Acton wasn’t your typical NICU baby. Born 10 days late, he was
bigger than his fellow patients but no less vulnerable. After a healthy
pregnancy, Travis and Andrea Acton had felt ready to welcome their third
child. “We thought as experienced parents, that we had everything – that we
were prepared,” Travis said. “But things changed so fast.”
Cameron was born by emergency C-section, and doctors and nurses rushed
to save both mom and baby. “For my husband, he had to see Cameron come
out not responsive and see what I was going through and the panic everyone
was under,” Andrea said.
But just half a year later, “We have our child here and I have my wife here
thanks to Regional One Health; thanks to the newborn center. It’s special to
me,” Travis said.
Just as it is to more and more Mid-South families every day.
Thanks to the support from our caring donors, the team at the newborn
center continues to advance medical treatment through innovation, new
technology, training, and compassion, giving life to fragile infants and to
Dr. Korones’ legacy of ensuring every child is given a fighting chance.
Born 10 days past full-term, Cameron
Acton wasn’t your typical tiny NICU
baby – but when a harrowing delivery
left him in need of lifesaving care, the
Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center
team provided the compassion and
care he needed.
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playing outdoors – but their start in life was anything but ordinary, and their parents are
grateful to Regional One Health’s Maternal Fetal Medicine team for making it happen.
׉	 7cassandra://bKgcN1nxcETUspflAQYG3odQLnKgv1VlpBnVAA-vD8U!:` ^AhKbZX׉ENormal Life,
Typical Boys
There was a time when life was anything but.
Gail and Jeff Duncan cherish day-to-day moments
with twins Garrett and Gunner knowing that it
took high-tech science to get them there.
Gail Duncan remembers the procedure that saved her babies as something
out of a sci-fi movie, with a parade of doctors in white lab coats and a
laser aimed at her from across the room.
While the lead-up felt otherworldly, the ending to the story is entirely and
beautifully human: two precious babies who are now busy, healthy little boys.
Regional One Health’s highly-specialized Maternal Fetal Medicine program,
the region’s only one of its kind, helped give Gail and husband Jeff that
happy outcome. “It was an incredible experience. I truly believe we were
meant to be in Memphis and to come across their group,” she said. “They’re
fantastic. I can’t say enough about them.”
Gail and Jeff were moving to Memphis from Manchester, Tennessee, when
she learned she was expecting identical twins, meaning she’d need close
monitoring. Research led her to Giancarlo Mari, MD, FACOG, medical
director of Regional One Health’s High-Risk Obstetrics Program.
“At my first appointment, they did a very thorough ultrasound,” said Gail,
who was 21 weeks along at the time. “I remember very clearly that after the
lady did the ultrasound, she kind of disappeared for a little while. Dr. Mari
came in and started looking. I knew something was up.”
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and the Maternal Fetal Medicine practice at Regional One Health.
It was Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, a rare condition where
blood flows unevenly between twins sharing a placenta. Without
treatment, Gail’s twins had a 10 percent chance of survival.
“Dr. Mari started telling me the options, including a laser procedure
he said was the absolute best option. This was Wednesday, and he
told me, ‘I can get you in Friday.’”
Gail scheduled the procedure, a Laser Ablation Placental
Anastomoses, in which doctors use a camera to guide a laser
through a mother’s stomach and uterus into the placenta. They
laser abnormal connections, being careful not to disrupt healthy
connections that benefit the babies.
The carefully choreographed operation followed years of
preparation.
Gail was one of Regional One Health’s first maternal fetal medicine
patients to undergo the twin to twin transfusion procedure. This
service was made possible years earlier when the health care system
worked with Dr. Mari on assembling highly-specialized equipment
funded by Regional One Health Foundation donors. They added
Mauro Schenone, MD, and Pedro Argoti, MD to the team, and began
preparing to treat patients.
They created strict standards, stating procedures must be the
only way to prevent miscarriage or death, and stipulated that all
surgeries be done at Regional One Health, where there are resources
to protect both baby and mother.
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Gunner and Garrett were born healthy at 35
weeks thanks to a high-tech procedure at
Regional One Health.
׉	 7cassandra://-oylUec9avEHbkdNvpwg1MFxUXC4_inNYVhAO09wsUQ ` ^AhKbZZ׉EThen, they trained tirelessly. “We worked very hard to prove we were
ready,” Dr. Schenone said. “We wouldn’t take a patient until after many
simulations where the team showed we were ready to go from assembly to
checking equipment to lasering a placenta.”
Their diligence paid off for Gail, whose procedure went perfectly. “I knew things
would be OK when Dr. Mari asked me if we’d picked out names,” she said.
Finally, at 35 weeks, Garrett and Gunner decided the time had come. Today,
they are healthy, active, normal little boys.
Garrett takes being born two minutes before Gunner to heart. He’s more
likely to take the lead, and loves to color and listen to books. Gunner is more
active physically, with a big imagination and sense of humor. Both boys love
karate, and they’ll start kindergarten next year.
“They’re just typical boys. They love to play outside and run and ride bikes,”
Gail said.
She’s grateful to Regional One Health for giving them that chance. “I don’t
want to think about what would have happened if we hadn’t found Regional
One Health – one or both of them may not have survived,” she said. “I truly
felt like they were rooting for us. They wanted the boys to be healthy, and
they wanted to do everything they possibly could to get them there.”
That’s what drives the Maternal Fetal Medicine team, the only one in the
region that treats Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome and other rare lifethreatening
conditions.
“It’s a very unique program,” Dr. Schenone said. “There are 10-20 centers
in the whole country, and we’re one of them. In this area of the map, we’re
it. The stakes are high, and babies are referred typically with a very somber
prognosis. Our days aren’t always sunny, but those cases where you help a
baby survive, it keeps you going. It’s a beautiful experience.”
Today, the Duncans are a happy family of four. “They’re just typical boys,” Gail says of Gunner
and Garrett.
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Firefighters Burn Center and endured
over 40 surgeries to repair injuries to his
chest, abdomen, face, arms, and legs.
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Of a Lion
Samir Alniswan’s courage, will to survive and the expert
care he received at the Firefighters Burn Center helped
him return home to continue his rehabilitation.
On the day he is discharged from Regional One Health’s Firefighters Burn
Center, Samir Alniswan wears a black shirt emblazoned with the face of a lion.
It’s an image that conjures up many meanings: Power. Strength. Courage.
After suffering devastating burns, Samir needed all of those things to
survive. He also needed the unique medical expertise and state-of-the-art
technology that the compassionate Burn Center team have developed with
support from the Regional One Health Foundation.
“If I had gone to any other hospital, I don’t think I would have made
it. They’ve got amazing doctors,” Samir said. “I tell people, ‘This is the
hospital to go to: don’t give up, because they’ll save you.’ They did surgery
after surgery to save my leg. They went above and beyond.”
Burn specialist Ram Velamuri, MD and William Hickerson, MD, the center’s
medical director, were among the first to treat Samir, who had injuries to
his chest, abdomen, face, arms, and legs.
“He had extremely deep burns to 60 percent of his body,” Dr. Velamuri said.
“The burns to his legs, especially the left leg, extended all the way to the
bone.”
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your husband because you’re like my daughter. I
promise you, just give me time.’ And he did. It’s an
amazing hospital.
AMY ALINSWAN
The soft tissue and ligament structure of Samir’s legs were destroyed,
leading to significant loss of mobility. Four fingers on his right hand
were amputated, and deep burns limited movement in his wrists. Over six
months, Samir had more than 40 surgeries along with kidney dialysis, blood
thinners, a ventilator, antibiotics, and treatment for abnormal heart rhythm.
But after all that, Samir was able to not only survive but to also return to his
own home.
His success is due to an interdisciplinary approach at Regional One
Health that includes doctors and nurses in intensive care and burn, rehab
therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists, and social workers. They come
together to treat the most severely burned patients from Tennessee,
Arkansas, southern Missouri, Mississippi and Kentucky at the Firefighters
Burn Center, the only facility of its kind in a 400-mile radius verified by the
American Burn Association.
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M“We use techniques that are different and unique, and
we give the patient hope,” Dr. Velamuri said. “We focus
not only on life but function. It’s not just about the care
we provide while they’re in the hospital, it’s about seeing
them leave functioning as close to possible as they were
before they were injured.”
Dr. Ram Velamuri said the burn
center’s interdisciplinary approach
helps patients like Samir conquer their
injuries. “We use techniques that are
different and unique, and we give the
patient hope,” he said. “It’s not just
about the care we provide while they’re
in the hospital, it’s about seeing them
leave functioning as close to possible
as they were before they were injured.”
For Samir’s wife Amy, that approach was a blessing,
starting from day one. “Dr. Hickerson gave me a hug
and told me, ‘I’ll save your husband because you’re like
my daughter. I promise you, just give me time.’ And he
did. It’s an amazing hospital.”
It continued with Samir’s physical therapy, as Sandra
Fletchall, OTR/L, CHT, MPA, FAOTA, burn rehabilitation
manager, helped rebuild his strength and give him new
ways to get dressed, brush his teeth, eat, get in and out
of rooms and cars.
“People think, ‘I can’t do it the way I used to, so I can’t
do it at all,’” Fletchall said. “But it doesn’t mean it’s the
end, it just means it’s different, and
we have to figure out the way to move forward and the
best technique for them to do it.”
Fletchall said it’s amazing that Samir not only survived
and kept his legs but, “He’s not going into a nursing
home. He’s going home.”
And as that joyful occasion arrived and Samir said
goodbye to a burn center team that had come to feel like
family, he knew exactly what he was most excited to get
home to.
He has a cat who he rescued as a kitten. Samir found the
tiny animal wandering in a busy street, its life perched
precariously in the hands of the drivers speeding by. He
waded into the fray, scooped up the trembling animal
and carried him to safety. He’s cared for him ever since,
helping him grow from a fragile kitten to thriving cat.
Samir named him Simba. In Swahili, it means Lion.
Burn Rehabilitation Manager Sandra
Fletchall gives patients a new way to
be independent after serious injuries:
“People think, ‘I can’t do it the way
I used to, so I can’t do it at all.’ But
it doesn’t mean it’s the end, it just
means it’s different, and we have to
figure out the way to move forward and
the best technique for them to do it.”
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included a lacerated liver
and spleen, torn diaphragm,
punctured lung, broken
collarbone, broken ribs
and multiple compression
fractures in her spine.
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Lifesaving
Dream Team
Following a rollover ATV accident, Haley McCommon
met a group of doctors and nurses who not only
saved her life, they inspired her future.
Life can change in an instant.
One minute, you’re a carefree 19-year-old girl, enjoying a summer day. The
next, you’re in a hospital 100 miles away with your spine crushed and an
incision from emergency surgery running the length of your stomach.
You start asking yourself hard questions: Can I do this? What’s next for me?
In June 2018, Haley McCommon was in a rollover ATV accident. At first, she
didn’t know just how badly she was hurt.
“I didn’t have any blood on me,” Haley recalls. “There was no cell service,
so we rode 20 minutes back to town to call 911. When the paramedics got
there, they said I didn’t have time to ride in an ambulance. They shut down
a local highway and dropped a helicopter down.”
She was on her way to Regional One Health’s Elvis Presley Trauma Center.
Thanks to highly-trained specialists, cutting-edge technology and ongoing
support from the Regional One Health Foundation, the trauma center treats
the most critically-ill patients as the only Level 1 Trauma Center in a 150-mile
radius.
Haley was alert the whole time. She recalls pain and fear, but her first
memory of Regional One Health is of humanity and compassion: “I
remember a nurse with an Ole Miss scrub-cap leaning over me,” she said.
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a U around her, and once the doors
to that trauma bay shut, your
heart just goes boom.
CASEY MCCOMMON, HALEY’S MOM
“He told me he’d stay with me and he wouldn’t leave me all alone.”
It was Zack Witcher, and he kept his promise, keeping Haley calm until her
mom Casey arrived just in time to see her daughter wheeled into surgery:
“You see nine of them standing in a U around her, and once the doors to
that trauma bay shut, your heart just goes boom,” Casey said.
What Casey and Haley would discover, though, is the trauma team understands
that feeling and goes out of their way to comfort patient and family.
They would come to refer to them as “Haley’s Dream Team;” Witcher and
fellow trauma nurse Joey Omedeo, anesthesiologists Jerry Jones, MD and Blas
Catalani, MD, and others who were at Haley’s side for her entire journey.
Haley met Dr. Jones, director of the Acute Pain Service, three days in. She
was on morphine and was struggling with pain, nausea and an opioid haze.
“He took one look at me and said, ‘You’re done with this,’” she recalls.
Dr. Jones used continuous peripheral nerve blocks, a procedure he has
pioneered to get patients through the acute pain period with few or no
Casey McCommon, Dr. Jerry Jones, Haley McCommon and trauma nurse Joey Omedeo will
forever share a bond thanks to the compassionate care Haley received at Regional One Health.
Haley and Casey call Dr. Jones, Omedeo and others at the hospital “Haley’s Dream Team.”
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her to all these narcotics,” Dr. Jones said. “If we can control her pain so she
can get up and do rehab without exposing her, that’s what we need to do.”
Meanwhile, Omedeo kept Haley’s spirts up with humor and kindness. “We
had Joey doing pushups on the floor to make me laugh;” she said. “He came
in and apologized because the day they got me out of bed the first time was
his day off, and he wasn’t there to help.”
“Haley’s Dream Team” never made them feel like patients. They made them
feel like family.
“You weren’t just doing a job. You laughed with us. You cared about us. You
were her team,” Casey told Omedeo and Dr. Jones after she and Haley visited
to say thank you.
Haley added, “You were more than a doctor and nurse. It wasn’t just coming
in and taking my vitals and giving me medicine. You don’t realize how
much that means to people.”
“Haley’s Dream Team” says her experience means just as much to them.
“You had the choice to build yourself up and build up those around you,”
Omedeo said. “You saw that you can do it and you did it, and that’s so
uplifting.”
Dr. Jones added, “You had more than enough opportunity to give up or
choose a bad course. You could let this ruin your life or you could learn what
strong is. The direction you went, you picked it. It’s you who had to get up,
get back on your feet and live your life again.”
Haley admits wondering if she’d be able to do that but then realizing she
had no other choice. And today, she is more than living her live – she’s been
inspired to lead a life of helping others: “I’m going back to school,” she
said. “I decided I want to be a nurse!”
Haley was fitted with a brace after
her accident left her with multiple
compression fractures in her spine.
To read more about Haley’s Dream Team, head to
regionalonehealthfoundation.org/dreamteam.mp4
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and powerful philanthropy
The 2019 ONE Night gala welcomed 900 guests to enjoy unforgettable performances by music
legends Chaka Kahn and Billy Ocean, all while supporting the lifesaving work that makes
miracles happen every day at Regional One Health.
Hosted by co-chairs Jennifer Hobson and Suzana Lightman, ONE Night more than lived up to its
reputation as one of the Mid-South’s best parties and most powerful philanthropic events. Funds
raised from the gala support the purchase of state-of-the-art medical equipment, advanced
training for medical professionals, and initiating programs to combat community health issues.
Over the past nine years, the One Night Gala has raised $5,796,235.30.
Thanks to everyone who has helped make it a success over the years.
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IS SATURDAY, APRIL 18
For information on sponsorships and tickets, contact Patrick Byrne
at 901.545.8174 or pbyrne@regionalonehealth.org.
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Raise $205,000!
Last year, Regional One Health
employees went “ALL IN” in
support of Regional One Health
Foundation, raising a record
$205,000 during our annual
employee giving campaign.
Each contribution, from the more than 1,000 employees who participated,
played a part in the more than $3 million granted back to various areas the
Regional One Health system. Every dollar raised stayed within the hospital
and was strategically invested in medical technology, patient care programs,
clinical research projects, professional education opportunities, and other
initiatives that help improve the health of our patients.
To all those who contributed...THANK YOU!
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We are tremendously grateful to have the support of many community members who help save and improve the lives of our patients
through their generous contributions. We express this gratitude and recognize these donors through membership in the exclusive giving
circles outlined below. All gift recognition levels celebrate the spirit of philanthropy to advance our health care mission. All charitable gifts
help to strengthen our institution by providing vital resources for medical technology, research, patient care and community programs. To
retain recognition status, donors must continue to make gifts each fiscal year (July 1 – June 30).
The Pillar Society: Donors who give $10,000 or more annually.
The Founder’s Circle: Donors who give $5,000 or more annually.
The President’s Circle: Donors who give $1,000 - $4,999 annually.
PILLAR SOCIETY
INDIVIDUALS
Mr. & Mrs. Damon Arney
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Barton, Jr.
Anonymous
Dr. & Mrs. Reginald Coopwood
Mr. Kirk Franklin
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Gilmore
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Harper
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lightman, Jr.
Mr. Mike Tutor & Mrs. Holly Craft
CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
Alliant Employee Benefits
Avectus Healthcare Solutions, LLC
Baptist Memorial Health Care
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Center of Orthotics and Prosthetics, Inc.
Connect Healthcare Collaboration
Dillard's
FedEx Corporation
First Horizon Foundation
Healthcare Excellence Institute
Johnson Auxiliary Gift Shop
McVean Trading & Investments, LLC
Orion Federal Credit Union
Provident Management Consulting
Radians, Inc.
Scheidt Family Foundation, Inc.
Southeastern Asset Management
State of Tennessee
SunTrust Bank, Inc.
The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.
The Hohenberg Charity Trust
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Valero Energy Foundation
FOUNDER’S CIRCLE
INDIVIDUALS
Mr. & Mrs. Imad Abdullah
Mr. Daniel Case
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Coates
Mr. Ronald Coleman
Dr. & Mrs. Martin Croce
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Guinn
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Hobson
Mr. & Mrs. Preston Jefferson
Dr. & Mrs. Clyde Jones
Mr. & Mrs. William Moore
Mr. & Mrs. David Popwell
Ms. Tammie Ritchey
Mrs. Lisa Schafer
Dr. Thomas Schroeppel
Mr. & Mrs. Phil Shannon
Ms. Nancy Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Josh Shores
Mr. & Mrs. William Stegbauer
Ms. Deborah Tipton
CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
Alliance Healthcare Services
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &
Berkowitz, PC
Bolder Healthcare Solutions
Butler Snow
Campbell Clinic
Cerner Corporation
Christian Community Foundation of Memphis
and the Mid-South
Cigna Healthcare
Delta Dental of Tennessee
Deupree Family Foundation
Dunavant Enterprises, Inc.
EnableComp
Evolve Bank & Trust
Farris Bobango Branan PLC
Spine Specialty Center
Highland Capital Management Corporation
Hospital Wing
HRO Partners, LLC
Juice Plus+
KPMG
Linen King
Lipscomb Pitts Insurance, LLC
Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation
nexAir LLC
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Regions Financial Corporation
Reliant Investment Management, LLC
Reventics, Inc.
Semmes Murphey
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
UnitedHealthcare
University Clinical Health
UT Regional One Physicians (UTROP)
Vizient
W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company
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INDIVIDUALS
Dr. Omer Afzal
Mr. & Mrs. Ed Apple
Ms. Irene Ayotte
Mr. Austin Baker
Mr. Rand Ballard
Mr. & Mrs. Everett Bass
Mr. & Mrs. Craig Becker
Ms. Nikia Bell
Mr. & Mrs. Derrick Bell
Mr. Patrick Blankinship
Dr. & Mrs. Steven Boggs
Ms. Pebble Bordelon
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Burkett
Dr. & Mrs. David Cannon
Mr. Michael Carpenter
Mr. Trey Carter
Anonymous Cash
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Clay
Ms. Hope Clayburn
Ms. Susan Cooper
Mr. & Mrs. Giles Damron
Mr. & Mrs. John Daniel, III
Mr. & Ms. Mark Davis
Dr. Susan Dean
Dr. & Mrs. Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy
Mr. & Mrs. Pat Dougherty
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Epperson
Ms. Katharine Ericksen
Mr. & Mrs. John Farris
Ms. Carol Farris
Mr. Carlos Fifer
Ms. Dina Filiberto
Dr. & Mrs. Peter Fischer
Ms. Lavelle Fitch
Ms. Yolanda Fitzgerald
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Floyd
Ms. Anne Forbus
Mr. & Mrs. William Franklin
Dr. Nadish Garg
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Gipson
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Goodwin
Ms. Barbara Haines
Ms. Elise Hamdorff
Mr. Mike Hammersmith
Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Hardin
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Dr. Brenda Hardy
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Harrison
Mrs. Tanya Hart
Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Heros
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hooks
Mr. & Mrs. John Houseal
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hutton
Mr. Andrew Inglis
Mr. & Mrs. King Johnson
Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Jones
Mr. Booker Jones
Mr. Justin Lachey
Mr. Nathaniel Landau
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lightman, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. R.E. Linkous
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Loeb
Mrs. Danielle Lombard-Sims
Dr. & Mrs. Louis Magnotti
Ms. Christine Maxwell
Mrs. Pamela McBride
Mr. Kirk McGuire
Mr. & Mrs. T. Wayne Mitchell
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Moore
Ms. Jane Morris
Dr. Linda Moses-Simmons
Mr. & Mrs. Jason Neel
Mr. Aaron Neglia
Ms. Contemprist Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Nichols
Capt. & Mrs. Henry Nixon, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Ashley Pace
Mr. & Mrs. Bret Perisho
Mr. & Mrs. Johnny Pitts
Mr. & Mrs. James Proctor
Mr. & Mrs. Scott Ready
Ms. Betty Rice
Mr. Bobby Robinson
Ms. Randa Rosenblum
Ms. Valerie Russell-Scott
Dr. Mary Ryan
Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Sapp
Mr. & Mrs. John Sheahan
Ms. Jacqueline Smartt
Ms. Leslie Smith
Mr. and Mrs. James Sneed
Drs. Laurie & Trevelin Sprabery
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Steinberg
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Tate
Dr. Loyrirk Temiyakarn
Mr. & Dr. Darrell Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. James Thomas
Ms. Pat Tigrett
Ms. Leticia Towns
Mrs. Renee Trammell
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Vance
Ms. Morgan Ward
Ms. Nicole Washington
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. Ed Yendrek
CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS
American Program Management, LLC
Bella Vita, Inc
Capitol Resources, LLC
Car Max
Care Logistics
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Cotton Row Uniques, LLC
Data Blue, LLC
Desi Female Doctors of the Mid-South
Emmel Family Fund
FedEx Employees Credit Association
Flintco, Inc.
Frontstream
Highwoods Properties
Ideas Unlimited
Impact Management Group, Inc.
Kroger Foundation
Lakeside Behavioral Health System
Mahaffey Tent and Party Rentals
Memphis City Employees Credit Union
Morrison Management Specialist
Needles Family Foundation
NovaTech, Inc.
Pi Kappa Alpha - Zeta Beta
Regional One Health Extended Care Hospital LLC
Shelby County Employees
Southland Park Gaming & Racing
Staple Cotton Cooperative Association
Thomas Consultants, Inc.
Tiger Sports Properties / Learfield
Communications, LLC
Turner Construction
Vistage / The Decisive Element
Whitmor, Inc.
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MEMORIAL
CONTRIBUTORS
IN MEMORY OF
JOHNNIE ALSTON
Marsha Evans
IN MEMORY OF
TODD ARBUCKLE
Cleveland Lumber & Supply Co.
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN BALFOUR
Michael Balfour
IN MEMORY OF
BETTY BUDDY
Russell Bridgewater
IN MEMORY OF
DORA CROCE
Marsha Evans
Tammie Ritchey
IN MEMORY OF
ELVIS PRESLEY
David & Janice Peel
Sandra Van Horn
Stanley & Lucille Walkup
Stuck on Elvis Fan Club
TCB Elvis Fan Club
IN MEMORY OF
ALBERT FITZGERALD
Yolanda & Joseph Fitzgerald
IN MEMORY OF
TRINA FREEMAN
Michael Balfour
IN MEMORY OF
GREG GAY
Anne Suitor
Brenda Varnedoe
IN MEMORY OF
TRACY GOODWIN
Lawrence & Cathy Goodwin
IN MEMORY OF
LINDA GREEN
Cleveland Lumber & Supply Co.
IN MEMORY OF
EMMA HENDRICKS
Patrick Hendricks
IN MEMORY OF
DR. STEPHEN KING
Susan Dean
IN MEMORY OF
CAROLE MASON
Joann Passalacqua
IN MEMORY OF
BRIAN POUNDERS
Charles & Cheryl Mohon
IN MEMORY OF
DEBBIE REID
Merck Foundation
Debbie Reid
IN MEMORY OF
DOROTHY RICHIE
Arlene Kennedy
IN MEMORY OF
SHEP II
Yolanda Fitzgerald
IN MEMORY OF
PAULINE VLAHOS
Yolanda & Joseph Fitzgerald
IN MEMORY OF
STAVROULA VLAHOS
Judy Baird
IN MEMORY OF
ANDREW WESTERFIELD
Cleveland Lumber & Supply Co.
IN MEMORY OF
STAVROULA WILKINSON
Judy Baird
IN MEMORY OF
JOSEPH WOESTENDIEK
Automated Conveyor Systems
Kathryn & John Murdock
Leon & Janet Breun
Nancy & Kelly Davis
Kathy Gibson
T. Wayne & Jennifer Mitchell
HONOR CONTRIBUTORS
IN HONOR OF
SUSAN ARNEY
Shade Robinson
Deborah Tipton
IN HONOR OF
KAY CONLEE
Giles & Amanda Damron
IN HONOR OF
REGINALD COOPWOOD, MD
Leticia Towns
Kathryn Finestone
Rick Wagers
IN HONOR OF
DIANA DRINAN
Jeff & Leslie Drinan
IN HONOR OF
YOLANDA &
JOSEPH FITZGERALD
Pebble Magee Bordelon
IN HONOR OF
JENNIFER & JOEL HOBSON
Kirby & Glenn Floyd
Lucia & Ricky Heros
Amy Golden & Emmel
Family Fund
Bob & Mary Loeb
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IN HONOR OF
IN CELEBRATION OF
WHITNEY JORDAN
Bank of America
Charitable Fund
Kelly Bolton
IN HONOR OF
SUZANA LIGHTMAN
Kirby & Glenn Floyd
IN HONOR OF
MEMPHIS FIRE
FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
FOUNDATION
Dr. Charles Hogan
Memphis Chiropractic
Neurology Clinics
Memphis Spine & Sport
IN HONOR OF
PAUL MORRIS
Jane & Jack Morris, III
IN HONOR OF
TRENT PIERCE
Victoria Russell
IN HONOR OF
REGIONAL ONE HEALTH
THERAPISTS
Lisa Mantaro
IN HONOR OF
TRUE FELLOWSHIP
MINISTRIES
Timothy Bowers
IN HONOR OF
KATHERINE H. WHITMAN
Kathleen Plucker
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