First Lady Jill Biden dropped in on a COVID vaccination event at a church in North Nashville on Wednesday with a pretty simple message.
HCA faces over-admission allegations that have gotten other Nashville hospital systems in trouble
In February, Jennifer Smithfield of Robertson County was feeling weak and still having some trouble breathing after nearly two weeks with COVID. To be safe, her primary care physician suggested going to the emergency department. She chose HCA’s Centennial Medical Center, near its corporate headquarters in Nashville.
An ad blitz during this weekend’s Titans game targeted transgender care in Tennessee. Who was behind it?
A national nonprofit billing itself as the conservative version of the ACLU is wading into Tennessee politics. “America First Legal” was running an ad in heavy rotation during the radio broadcast of the Titans game Sunday on 104.5 The Zone.
Hundreds of healthcare workers ask Tennessee lawmakers to reconsider the state’s all-out abortion ban
More than 700 Tennessee health care workers have signed an open letter to state lawmakers, asking them to revisit the state’s all-out abortion ban.
Vanderbilt was never doing genital surgeries on minors but agrees to ‘pause’ other gender-affirming procedures
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has agreed to pause gender-affirming surgeries performed by its pediatric transgender health clinic, which has been under fire from Republican lawmakers. Vanderbilt has now responded to a letter signed by 62 GOP members of the Tennessee House of Representatives who demanded the clinic stop surgeries on minors.
Physician groups request DOJ investigate those targeting of pediatric trans care
National physician groups are now asking the Department of Justice to investigate threats to children’s hospitals over care for transgender teens. The clinic at Vanderbilt is just one of several that have been targeted by far-right activists.
Southern Baptists pushed to ban abortion, but their leader wants a key safeguard added in Tennessee
Tennessee is one of the few states that has banned abortion with no exceptions. The law has what’s known as an “affirmative defense” if a doctor performs an abortion because the pregnant person’s life was in danger. The newly elected Southern Baptist Convention president, Bart Barber, says that’s not enough.
Parents of trans teens in Tennessee have their own concerns about rushing treatment, but they fear losing the option
Conservatives are ramping up a campaign to end transgender care for minors in Tennessee. But the journey of one Nashville teenager in the midst of a gender transition shows just how painstaking the process already is.
Tennessee hospital chiefs huddle to address hiring crisis
Tennessee hospital chiefs huddled in Franklin this weekend, largely to focus on their shared hiring crisis. The staffing shortage has not eased even as the pandemic subsides, and many hospital leaders are beginning to get used to high turnover.
For trans teens in Tennessee, state law has a limited say in guiding their care — for now
Attacks on the care of transgender teens in Middle Tennessee has prompted calls by conservatives for investigations and new laws. Right now, there isn’t but one related law on the books, and it’d be hard to break.
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