The Trump administration announced it would make major cuts to National Institutes of Health grants. Tennessee gets around $700 million a year in NIH funding. The money goes to universities, hospitals and biomedical companies.
Report finds Hispanic Tennesseans are more likely to be uninsured and miss out on cancer screenings
A national report on racial disparities in health care finds that Hispanic Tennesseans were much less likely to access critical screenings such as mammograms.
Black investors launch hospice agencies focused on end-of-life disparities
National data shows Black Medicare patients and their families are not making the move to comfort care as often as white patients.
Nashville health department adds a bureau to reduce inequities exposed by COVID
The pandemic plainly exposed health inequities in Nashville, from high concentrations of COVID cases to limited vaccine access early on. In response, the city’s health department has restructured to form a bureau of health equity.
Nashville To Spend Latest COVID Money On Community Outreach
Nashville is using its latest $5 million allocation of COVID relief money to fund health outreach teams. They’re not doctors or nurses, but rather liaisons and educators known as community health workers.
Nashville’s New Doula-Led Birth Center Focuses On Families Of Color
Tennessee has some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country, and nationwide Black women are more likely to lose a child than white women. A new health center hopes to lower Middle Tennessee’s rates by connecting families with doulas who will advocate for them before, during and after pregnancy.
Teaching Black Women In Nashville To Be Birth Workers, In Order To ‘Save Black Lives’
Over two dozen women gathered in late winter inside a large, open room at the Nashville Sudbury School. They were there to become doulas — trained birth workers who support women through their reproductive experiences — as a part of a training with the nonprofit Homeland Heart Birth and Wellness Collective.
Why Black Barbers In Nashville Are Being Asked To Check Their Clients’ Blood Pressure
The screening is modeled after projects in California and Texas that have had success treating hypertension where patients are most comfortable and already go regularly.
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