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Healthcare

As this South Nashville health center practices for ICE raids, it still wants immigrant patients to feel ‘celebrated’

Char Daston

February 11, 2025

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ICE says it will now enter schools, churches and hospitals. Staff at one clinic is practicing what they’ll do if agents show up.

Filed Under: Health Care, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Healthcare, illegal immigration, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Siloam

Your Turn To Talk: Navigating our health care system

Mary Mancini

October 10, 2024

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Navigating our health care system is rarely easy, but it’s especially difficult when you don’t know who to go to with questions.

Filed Under: Health Care, Programs Tagged With: Divya Shroff, Healthcare

Ascension is the latest health company in Tennessee to undergo a cybersecurity attack

Catherine Sweeney

May 17, 2024

ECMO at Ascension

Ascension has joined the ranks of nearly two dozen health care companies in Tennessee experiencing cyberattacks.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Ascension Saint Thomas, cyberattacks, Healthcare, hospitals

Nashville educators: Tennessee needs to find new incentives and support students to reverse its nursing shortage

Catherine Sweeney

February 2, 2024

Tennessee is facing a health worker shortage. And now, professors and teachers from Nashville schools are looking to some novel solutions.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Healthcare, nursing

Tennessee political leaders weigh in on dispute over reproductive health care for military personnel

Blaise Gainey

September 19, 2023

Political battle lines are hardening over how military personnel get access to abortions.

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abortion, Bill Hagerty, Healthcare, John Ragan, Karen Camper, Marsha Blackburn, Military, Politics

The cost of care for disabilities and chronic illnesses

Elizabeth Burton

July 27, 2023

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The American healthcare system is not known for its affordability. Giving birth costs an average of $18,885 nationwide before insurance. If you have a medical emergency, you can expect to spend hundreds on your ambulance ride — and that doesn’t even include the cost of the medical care itself. In fact, medical debt is the leading type […]

Filed Under: Programs, WPLN News Tagged With: chronic illness, disability, Healthcare, medical debt, TennCare

TennCare uses scare tactics and aggressive enforcement to root out fraud. With millions spent, the agency has little to show for it.

Blake Farmer

February 10, 2023

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The state’s low-income health insurance program, TennCare, funds an outside unit dedicated to rooting out potential fraud. After millions of dollars spent each year, it has less and less to show for the effort aside from slapping Tennesseans with felonies unnecessarily.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: budget, Chad Holman, fraud, health insurance, Healthcare, legislature, Medicaid, TennCare, Tennessee Justice Center, Tennessee Legislature, Tennessee Office of Inspector General, tnleg, tnpol

Governor Lee proposes $55.6B budget, with an eye toward roads, TennCare expansion and teacher raises

Blaise Gainey

February 6, 2023

Gov. Bill Lee is proposing a $55.6 billion budget for the next fiscal year, pumping billions into the state’s battered and congested roadways and dramatically expanding TennCare for families.  

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Abortion, Bill Lee, ESAs, Healthcare, public safety, schools, state of the state, TennCare, tnpol, Tyre Nichols

How Nashville has backtracked on HIV despite effective prevention options

Blake Farmer

November 30, 2022

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The South represents more than half of all new HIV cases in the U.S., and the region is making slower progress than the rest of the nation, according to the latest HIV/AIDS figures kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: AIDS, Aima Ahonkhai, Healthcare, HIV, Joseph Interrante, Nashville Cares

How Tennessee’s Planned Parenthood providers are preparing for the end of abortion access

Julia Ritchey

June 24, 2022

Planned Parenthood

Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, told reporters on Friday that they are booked with patients through July 1, and are trying to see people as quickly as they can before a ban goes into effect.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, clinics, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, Tennessee

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