MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A new University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) health hub is opening to create affordable health care for the Soulsville community. 

UTHSC, the Soulsville Foundation and Soulsville community, and the Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation are partnering to provide wellness options for people of all walks of life.

“The UTHSC Health Hub: Soulsville will address health and social needs of the community through individualized and empowering care that builds on existing community strengths and assets,” said Jim Bailey, MD, executive director of the Tennessee Population Health Consortium and Robert S. Pearce Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

This health hub will offer primary care services to adults and children, health coaching, school nursing serving three community schools, youth intervention specialists for student behavioral health needs, and mental health counseling (in the program’s second year). 

March 19 the organizations will launch the UTHSC Health Hub: Soulsville in Studio A inside the Stax Museum of American Soul Music at 2:30 p.m.

The new health hub will open in the summer in a temporary space in Soulsville until the permanent location opens in the fall.