MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 15, 2009 – Baptist Memorial hospitals recently hired or promoted several colleagues to manager or director positions.

• Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto named Paula Hinson assistant director of pharmacy services. She has been a Baptist colleague since 1999 and previously served as the assistant director of pharmacy services at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis.
• Baptist DeSoto also appointed Jan Tarbox manager of respiratory services. Before coming to Baptist, she worked for Methodist LeBonheur Health Care as the director of Methodist Alliance Home Medical Equipment, as well as the respiratory clinical manager at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis.
• Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women named Rosalee Thompson, who has been with Baptist for 32 years, as director of quality and compliance. She previously served as manager of staff development for Baptist Women’s Hospital.
• Baptist Women’s Hospital also named Kerry Griggs quality performance specialist. In her 22 years with Baptist, Griggs has worked in a variety of roles within the labor and delivery unit, most recently as nurse manager.
• Michelle Britton is now the director of cardiovascular services for Baptist DeSoto. She previously worked at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Miss., as the administrator of the heart and vascular center. She has been in nursing for more than 17 years, specializing in cardiac and critical care.

One of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the United States, Baptist Memorial Health Care offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South. The Baptist system, which consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the nation, comprises 15 hospitals in West Tennessee, North Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 3,100 affiliated physicians; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by the Baptist College of Health Sciences. Baptist has more than 2,600 licensed beds systemwide, employs more than 12,000 people and has approximately 85,000 admissions annually. In fiscal year 2008, Baptist provided more than $485 million in community benefit to the communities it serves.

For more information about Baptist, please visit www.baptistonline.org or call 800-4-BAPTIST.

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