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West Tennessee Healthcare – Janie Bard named employee of the month for October
Janie Bard, Administrative Nursing Supervisor at Dyersburg Hospital, was named West Tennessee Healthcare’s employee of the month for October.
She was presented the award by Tina Prescott, WTH executive vice president, Chief Operating Officer; Jan Zimmer, CNO, Dyersburg Hospital, and Scott Barber, CEO, Dyersburg Hospital, when the West Tennessee Healthcare Board of Trustees held their monthly meeting at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, Thursday.
Janie has been with Dyersburg Hospital for over 39 years from an early graduating class of Dyersburg State Community College School of Nursing.
According to a press release from Amy Garner – WTH’s Chief Compliance & Communications Officer – her energy, devotion, and bright spirit has only grown year after year.
In terms of her career, Janie has been a bedside nurse, a charge nurse, a Nurse Manager, and now an Administrative House Supervisor.
BlueOval City officials hold public meeting at Fairgrounds
The Ford Motor Company and SK Innovation had its heavy lifters at the Jackson Fairgrounds for an in-person panel discussion about BlueOval City – a massive new environmentally and technologically advanced vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee that is leading the shift to an electric America.
Kel Kearns, Plant Manager, Electric Vehicle Center, BlueOval City, was impressed by the enthusiasm at the meeting.
“We’ve have had a great community meeting (Thursday) and it was great to see a turnout of almost 500 people to listen to our presentation and to ask questions – and more importantly for us – to listen and learn … as we move forward,” Kearns said, “We were able to give a really good update on where we are with BlueOval City.”
Kearns said work at the Memphis Regional Megasite in Haywood County is on track.
“Construction has started, steel is up, and people are asking about the next steps – when hiring is going to happen for the operations team and those sorts of things,” Kearns said, “We are really, really encouraged by the response that we had today … a lot of questions and a lot of excitement about what’s happening moving forward.”
In September, 2021, Ford announced the $5.6 billion project to build electric F-Series pickups at the 3,600-acre parcel of land – the Memphis Regional Megasite.
The building, not the business – commercial property on Carriage House Drive sells
Sakura Investment Group has purchased 70 Carriage House Drive from Chun Yin Lam for $600,000.
The facility is home to Sakura Japanese Restaurant.
Hyatt Place – Ronald McDonald House – coming to corner of W. Forest Ave. & Lambuth Blvd.
Hyatt Place – Ronald McDonald House – will be constructed on the corner of West Forest Avenue and Lambuth Boulevard, which will benefit the children at Ayers Children’s Medical Center.
It will provide housing for children’s families, a place for long-term cancer/hospice families to stay as well as families of long-term heart patients.
The number of floors and square feet in the facility are not available.
At present, The Foundation places families in homes around Midtown Jackson when they are in the community to be with their loved ones who live more than 50 miles away.
This facility will located next to a large rehabilitation facility where patients may stay for more extended periods and across the street from a skilled nursing facility.
The Kirkland Cancer Center and Jackson-Madison County General Hospital is one block away.
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