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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart. Proverbs 15:30
The Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis campus includes the flagship hospital of the Baptist Memorial Health Care system. Opened in 1979, the hospital is 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 26,000 admissions, 57,000 emergency department visits and 15,000
surgeries in 2009, Baptist Memphis is one of Tennessee´s highest volume hospitals.
Smoking or other tobacco use is not permitted anywhere on campus. Click here for more information.
The emergency department has 31 treatment suites staffed by 24-hour-a-day emergency physicians for the treatment of adults. It also has a separate, dedicated
five-room pediatric treatment area staffed around the clock with in-house pediatric emergency physicians. In addition, the hospital houses the 19-bed inpatient
Hardin Pediatric Center.
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 heart 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 approximately 6,000 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 16th 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. The health care ratings organization also ranked Baptist Memphis in the top 5 percent in the nation in these same areas.
*2009 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.
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In keeping with the three-fold ministry of Christ — healing, preaching and teaching — Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation is committed to providing quality health care.