As of summer 2025, the hotel also welcomed the new Villa La Guettière, a private nine-bedroom retreat serviced by a team of private butlers and a chef.
King also said in recent years the hospital doubled the number of housekeepers per shift in its emergency department, and also increased the number of its emergency department transporters by 2%.
Nobody could have known at the time, but that performance was a prophecy of the city’s future, where artists would become the primary stewards of Memphis music history, rampaging through old blues, rock, soul, and gospel.
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Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
8 Feb. 2026
The natural result will be to harm the hospitals that have been proper stewards of their finances.
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