Listen The CEO of Nashville General Hospital has been sidelined as city leaders contemplate downsizing operations to save money. And Thursday afternoon, the Hospital Authority plans to finalize a long-overdue performance review with just two weeks left on Joseph Webb’s contract.
General Hospital Tries To Keep New Audit From Being Used Against Them
Nashville General Hospital is trying to keep a negative audit from being used to justify shutting down the facility. The Metro Hospital Authority has been fighting a proposal from Mayor Megan Barry to downsize the city’s struggling safety-net hospital, and some board members are worried about how an audit might look to the casual observer.
Nashville General Hospital Uncertainty Leaves Medical Residents In Potential Limbo
Listen The resident physicians at Nashville General will have to find somewhere else to finish their training if the hospital is downsized to a collection of outpatient services. An announcement last month that relocated Meharry Medical College’s third- and fourth-year students did not affect medical residents — but related changes at Nashville General would.
General Hospital Requests Larger Cash Infusion Despite Serving Fewer Patients
Nashville General Hospital has requested nearly $20 million to get through the rest of the fiscal year that ends in June. Without a cash infusion — which has become a regular mid-year request — the hospital says it will run out of operating funds Jan. 30. But the administration of Mayor Megan Barry is intensely […]
Meharry To Guide Brainstorming For Nashville General Hospital’s Viable Future
Listen Meharry Medical College has decided to take a leading role in the future of Nashville General Hospital, organizing a working group that includes the administration of Mayor Megan Barry, school officials, ministers and labor leaders representing hospital staff. This follows a few weeks of uncertainty after school announced this month it will relocate its […]
Why Nashville Might Miss General Hospital If It Shuts Down
Listen A plan that would end Nashville’s long history of running a public hospital is basically an argument that the city doesn’t really need one — and that other medical centers in town already dole out far more charity care, especially as General Hospital’s caseload has dwindled to 40 patients a day, operating at just […]
Nashville General Racks Up $93 Million in Uncompensated Care
Nashville General Hospital will set a record this year for uncompensated care. Hospital officials say they’ll have to write off $93 million.
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