Part of Perry Community Hospital’s financial collapse was due to losing a contract with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which is still demanding the hospital pay back $5 million in overbilling for inflated lab testing.
How Main Street Revitalization And Bottled Water Helped Turn Around One Rural Tennessee County
Listen Out in the woods of Perry County, Jim Bruner flips the switch on a stainless-steel pump. Up flows mineral water, about 52 degrees Fahrenheit, drawn from a mile below. “So it’s natural,” he says. “Natural artesian water, with natural alkalinity. It has a pH of about 8.3. The mineral content is in trace amounts. […]