MEMPHIS, Tenn — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's College of Medicine will open its first UTHSC Health Hub on Saturday, October 30th at 10am in Uptown at 534 North Second Street.
The UTHSC Health Hub is a community program that will go out into neighborhoods to provide convenient primary care in underserved areas of Memphis and Shelby County. The care will focus on obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
The hub will be staffed by certified health coaches that have been trained by doctors and will offer screening for obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes; support for those having to change their lifestyles due to disease; and assistance for patients in getting access to primary care.
“We’re using a new model of care for deploying health coaches in neighborhoods to help with early screening of people at risk for stroke and heart attack, and to provide coaching around healthy eating, physical activity, taking medications appropriately, and tobacco cessation,” said Jim Bailey, director of the Center for Health Systems Improvement and the Tennessee Population Health Consortium at UTHSC.
The UTHSC Health Hub will be open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome.
