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 Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, the flagship of the Baptist Memorial Health Care system, opened in 1979 and is a 706-bed tertiary care hospital located adjacent to the I-240 loop. Also located on the Baptist Memphis campus is a separately licensed 30-bed skilled nursing facility and the 30-bed Restorative Care Hospital. With more than 27,000 admissions, 54,000 emergency department visits and nearly 116,000 outpatient visits in 2007, Baptist Memphis is one of Tennessee’s highest volume hospitals.
The Baptist Heart Institute, located within Baptist Memphis, is dedicated to providing leading-edge cardiovascular research and treatment for heart patients. The Heart Institute, which measures 165,000 square feet, includes areas for cardiovascular procedures, cardiovascular surgical suites, heart catheterization labs, cardiovascular intensive care beds, a cardiac intervention unit, cardiac medicine units, a pre/post cath lab unit, electrophysiology labs, a cardiopulmonary transplant unit and a cardiovascular step-down unit. The Ford-Goltman Clinical Research Center, also located in the Heart Institute, is a specialized unit dedicated to providing care for clinical research patients. Baptist Memphis also operates the Plaza Diagnostic Pavilion, an outpatient facility that handles more than 10,000 outpatient visits a month and centralizes many of the hospital’s outpatient services. In addition, the Pediatric Outpatient Center (P.D.’s Perch) sees more than 800 patients a month. For the 12th year in a row, Mid-South consumers have rated Baptist Memphis their most preferred hospital for overall health care services in a National Research Corp. poll. According to HealthGrades, Baptist Memphis ranks best in Tennessee for cardiac surgery, stroke care and gastrointestinal surgery and procedures. The health care ratings organization also ranked Baptist Memphis in the top 5 percent in the nation in these same areas. *2008 best-in-market certifications provided by HealthGrades, Inc., the nation’s leading third-party health care ratings, information and advisory services company whose mission is to help guide America to better health care. Market areas are defined on www.healthgrades.com.  Top of Page |
State approves Baptist Memphis ED renovation
March 12, 2008 – The state of Tennessee has approved Baptist Memphis’ plans to renovate its emergency department.  More
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