23
October
2025
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21:32 PM
Europe/Amsterdam

Baptist and Frayser Community PTSA to host Family STEM Night

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Baptist and Frayser Community PTSA to host Family STEM Night
 

WHAT: As part of SHE (Science, Health, Empowerment) Leads the Way, Baptist Memorial Health Care, the Frayser Community Parent, Teacher, Student Association (PTSA) and the Memphis STEM in Medicine (STEMM) Ecosystem will host Family STEM Night, an event celebrating science exploration and community health education. Kayla Rodriguez Graff, CEO and co-founder of SweetBio, a biotechnology company that focuses on affordable wound care products, will present at the event, which will include dinner at 5:45 p.m. For more information about this free community event, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYznjSwob5Cx3Nex0BkhWotCGFKG-qgJ86GuD0O2Lo0CBgUg/viewform?pli=1.   

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 23
             6–7:30 p.m. 

WHERE: Ed Rice Community Center  
               2935 N. Watkins St.
               Memphis, TN 38127
 

BACKGROUND: Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Consistently ranking among the top integrated health care networks in the country, Baptist Memorial comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi and East Arkansas; a freestanding emergency department; more than 6,000 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 1,100 providers; Baptist Cancer Center; home, hospice and psychiatric care; walk-in and urgent care clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system that includes Baptist Health Sciences University and a college of osteopathic medicine. Baptist employs more than 23,000 people, and in fiscal year 2024 contributed more than $388 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.com.

INTERVIEW/PHOTOGRAPHY OPPORTUNITIES:     

  • Cynthia Bradford, system community involvement manager, Baptist Memorial Health Care
  • Kayla Rodriguez Graff, CEO and co-founder, SweetBio
  • Johnnie Hatten, President, Frayser Community PTSA 
     

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