Editing Memphis, Tennessee (section)

=== Health care ===
[[File:St Judes grass.jpg|thumb|right|[[St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]]]]
The Memphis and Shelby County region supports numerous hospitals, including the Methodist and Baptist Memorial health systems, two of the nation's largest private hospitals. Until the 1960s and the end of [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]], most hospitals only served white patients. One of the few hospitals for African Americans in Memphis in those times was Collins Chapel Connectional Hospital, whose historic building now houses a homeless shelter.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Historic Collins Chapel reopens as safe haven for homeless after renovations |date=April 19, 2021 |publisher=Fox 13 News |url=https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/historic-collins-chapel-reopens-safe-haven-homeless-after-renovations/PWJOFQSIJVDTRJIIRPDVL4S2LY/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420035738/https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/historic-collins-chapel-reopens-safe-haven-homeless-after-renovations/PWJOFQSIJVDTRJIIRPDVL4S2LY/ |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare]], the largest healthcare provider in the Memphis region and the fourth largest employer as of 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/subscriber-only/2018/07/13/largest-memphis-area-employers.html|title=Largest Memphis Area Employers|website=Business Journal|access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref> operates seven hospitals and several rural clinics. Methodist Healthcare operates, among others, the [[Le Bonheur Children's Hospital]], which offers primary level 1 pediatric trauma care, as well as a nationally recognized pediatric brain tumor program. Methodist Healthcare also operates [[Methodist University Hospital]], a 617-bed facility 1 mile southeast of Le Bonheur.

Baptist Memorial Healthcare operates fifteen hospitals (three in Memphis), including [[Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis|Baptist Memorial Hospital]], and with a merger in 2018 became the largest healthcare system in the mid-South.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170501/NEWS/170509983/baptist-memorial-and-mississippi-baptist-create-largest-system-in-the-region|title=Baptist Memorial and Mississippi Baptist create largest system in the region|date=May 1, 2017|website=Modern Healthcare|language=en|access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref> According to Health Care Market Guide's annual studies, Mid-Southerners have named Baptist Memorial their "preferred hospital choice for quality".

The [[St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]], leading pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children's catastrophic diseases, resides in Memphis. The institution was conceived and built by entertainer [[Danny Thomas]] in 1962 as a tribute to [[Jude the Apostle|St. Jude Thaddeus]], patron saint of impossible, hopeless, and difficult causes.

Regional One Health is located in Memphis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regionalonehealth.org/ |title=Home – Regional One Health – Regional One Health |website=regionalonehealth.org |access-date=August 23, 2023}}</ref>

Memphis is home to Delta Medical Center of Memphis,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deltamedcenter.com|title=Delta Medical Center Homepage|website=Deltamedcenter.com|access-date=July 13, 2017}}</ref> which is the only employee-owned medical facility in North America.

Individual [[health insurance marketplace]] insurers are limited, with [[Bright Health]] and [[Cigna]] offering coverage in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.healthinsurance.org/tennessee-state-health-insurance-exchange/|title=Tennessee health insurance marketplace: history and news of the state's exchange: Obamacare enrollment|date=December 29, 2018|website=healthinsurance.org|language=en|access-date=May 18, 2019}}</ref>