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Nashville General Hospital

Metro Council approves emergency $10M for Nashville General Hospital while settling with ousted CEO

Cynthia Abrams

April 3, 2025

Two significant decisions regarding Nashville General Hospital have been finalized.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Courtney Johnston, Dr. Joseph Webb, Kyonzte Toombs, Nashville General Hospital, Nashville Metro Council

NashVillager Podcast: The importance of Nashville General

Nina Cardona

March 31, 2025

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Why does Nashville need Nashville General Hospital? Plus, the local news for March 31, 2025.

Filed Under: Health Care, History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: health access, Nashville General Hospital

Nashville General Hospital CEO resigns amid tensions and an unflattering audit

Catherine Sweeney

February 27, 2025

There are tensions among Nashville General Hospital, Meharry Medical College, and the Metro government — and pressure as the hospital gets closer to the end of its lease.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Dr. James Hildreth, Dr. Joseph Webb, Meharry Medical College, Nashville General Hospital

An ER with no wait time? That’s the goal at Nashville General Hospital

Catherine Sweeney

July 11, 2024

Tennessee’s average emergency room wait time is two hours. One Nashville hospital has gotten its wait times down to just a few minutes.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville General Hospital

Nashville’s mayor strikes a deal with Meharry to settle debt over General Hospital

Blake Farmer

December 9, 2022

Ambulance at Nashville General

Meharry Medical College’s president has been trying to get Metro to pay more for the use of its hospital building since 2015. A deal struck with the mayor seeks to eliminate that stumbling block.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: James Hildreth, John Cooper, Meharry Medical College, Nashville General Hospital

Nashville General Hospital Gets Funding Boost After Years Of Fending Off Cuts

Blake Farmer

May 3, 2021

Ambulance at Nashville General

Instead of trying to back away from Nashville’s commitment to fund a public hospital, the city is now on a path to increase its contribution. Mayor John Cooper’s budget proposal includes $49 million for Metro General — a 14% increase.

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: hospitals, Metro budget, Nashville General Hospital

Tennessee Will Send Its Much-Debated Reserve Pfizer Vaccine To Nashville General Hospital

Blake Farmer

December 20, 2020

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Health officials in Tennessee spent the past week defending why they didn’t promptly begin vaccinations when the state received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer on Monday. A week later, those doses will go to Nashville General Hospital, according to spokesperson Sherry Gibbs.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, coronavirus vaccine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville General Hospital

Nashville General Hospital Board Dismisses Accusation Of Concealing Federal Coronavirus Funding

Blake Farmer

June 25, 2020

Metro’s finance director and the leadership of the city-funded Nashville General Hospital are at odds over the budget and whether federal relief funds were concealed as city leaders scrambled to finalize the city’s spending plan.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro Tagged With: Bruce Naremore, Kevin Crumbo, Nashville General Hospital, Richard Manson

Slowly, Metro Is Spending Less And Less On Nashville General Hospital

Blake Farmer

April 1, 2019

Listen Nashville General Hospital has recovered some of its financial footing after the threat of closure in late 2017, when the safety-net facility required a cash infusion just to make payroll. General Hospital is requesting less money from the city next year, bucking the national trend of rising health care costs and reversing years of […]

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care, Nashville General Hospital

Nashville’s General Hospital Scolded For Loose Use Of Credit Cards

Blake Farmer

September 10, 2018

Listen Auditors are chiding Nashville General Hospital for lax use of credit cards, racking up $400,000 in charges over two years without much documentation to support the spending. The findings are part of a broader audit, monitoring progress in the cash-strapped hospital paying its bills on time.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Health Care, Nashville General Hospital

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