Health Brief: Baptist Golden Triangle nationally recognized for Straight A’s in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
By Special to The Dispatch May 11, 2021
COLUMBUS The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization driven by employers and other purchasers of health care, today announced the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle is one of only 27 hospitals in the United States to be awarded an “A” grade every grading cycle since 2012. This latest grade marked the 19 th consecutive time the hospital earned an “A’ for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety.
The hospital is the only hospital in Mississippi and one of only 27 in the United States to have received ‘Straight As’ for patient safety since Leapfrog began grading hospitals for patient safety in 2012.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said Tom Lee Day was an opportunity to reflect on where Memphis was and where it is now, in terms of race relations. When the initial monument to Lee was erected, it referred to him as “a worthy Negro” rather than simply a worthy man, Cohen said. Now, almost a century later, statues of Confederate generals in Memphis have been removed from public parks while the memorial to Lee is being enhanced.
“Nathan Bedford Forrest is gone, Jefferson Davis is gone and Tom Lee will be remembered as a hero,” he said. “And that’s the way it should be.”
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Launches IMPACT Research Grants to Help Underserved Patients Access Clinical Trials
May 6, 2021 GMT
RYE BROOK, N.Y., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) announced today the launch of the IMPACT (Influential Medicine Providing Access to Clinical Trials) research grants to increase enrollment of individuals from underrepresented communities in clinical trials. Clinical trials are vital to improving cancer treatment, giving newly diagnosed patients access to state-of-the-art therapies, and providing a lifeline when other treatments have failed. Yet, clinical trials overwhelmingly fail to represent certain patient populations such as ethnic and racial minorities and people in rural communities.
Health brief: Baptist Golden Triangle adds Wound Healing, Hyperbaric Medicine Services
By Special to The Dispatch 8 hours ago
COLUMBUS You have heard the popular saying, “Time heals all wounds.” But, in many cases, that is not always true. Some wounds can take weeks to heal and many will not heal completely without some type of medical intervention.
Patients who live in and around Lowndes County who suffer from a hard-to-heal wound now
have a local option for treatment. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle has opened a new Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center on the third floor of the hospital’s Fifth Street building.