Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (formerly known as Baptist East) is a 706-bed a general hospital in

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

. This hospital, built in 1979, is now the flagship of Baptist Memorial Health Care since the closure of the Madison Campus in the

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in 2000, which dated from 1912. Baptist Memorial Health Care operates 22 Hospitals and numerous clinics in the three states surrounding the Memphis area. The former Madison Campus has been redeveloped by the

University of Tennessee Health Science Center The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is a public medical school in Memphis, Tennessee. It includes the Colleges of Health Professions, University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Univer ...

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The hospital has full emergency room services. Baptist Memorial Health Care operates a University

Baptist Health Sciences University Baptist Health Sciences University, formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences, is a private college in Memphis, Tennessee. It is operated by Baptist Memorial Health Care. The school was created through the expansion of the School of Nursing (es ...

centered on Health Professions nearby the site of the former Madison Campus. The school offers bachelor's degrees in

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, and

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* 1979 establishments in Tennessee Hospital buildings completed in 1979 Hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee {{Tennessee-hospital-stub

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