Tag: Dr. Richard Walker

Alternate-Care COVID-19 Hospital Construction Complete, UTHSC Poised to Manage Operations

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical Care

Richard Walker, MD, chair of emergency medicine and director of the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, watched Monday as the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers handed off the newly completed alternate-care hospital in the former Commercial Appeal Building on Union Avenue to state and local leaders for… Read More

UTHSC Leads Region’s Alternative-Care Hospital for COVID-19 Patients

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical Care

When the Governor Bill Lee came to Memphis Saturday to survey the city’s response to the novel coronavirus, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center stood front and center as the leader of a 400-bed, alternative-care field hospital that is being built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the former Commercial Appeal building at… Read More