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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]