The Baptist Memphis campus offers two libraries that provide journals, books, as well as meeting and study space, for Baptist team members, physicians, patients and the public. Both facilities were made possible through gifts to the Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation.
The Dr. Maury W. Bronstein Health Sciences Library, located on the concourse level at Baptist Memphis, opened in 1998 in honor of the longtime Baptist internist and cardiologist. The library subscribes to 43 journals and, with the opening of the Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children’s Hospital, hopes to add more pediatric books to its collection. The library also fills thousands of requests for articles from physicians and clinicians.
Physicians, residents and team members have 24/7 access to the library, and Janice Bloodworth staffs the facility Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Opened in 2005 in honor of Baptist Memorial Health Care’s third president and his wife, the Ann L. and Joseph H. Powell Library is located on the first floor of Medical Plaza 1 at 6025 Walnut Grove Road. The 2,000-square-foot facility offers educational materials and computers, hosts group meetings and classes, and provides health information to patients and the public. Several physicians send their patients to the library for additional information on their conditions and treatments, and Dawn Welker, who staffs the facility, fills similar requests for information from the general public.