Listen A physician assistant from Crossville has purchased the shuttered Cumberland River Hospital in Celina and has expressed interest in buying other struggling facilities on the Cumberland Plateau. The community is relieved, even though the hospital is far from reopening.
Jamestown Hospital Cuts Staff But Vows To Stay Open Amid Loss Of Federal Payments
Listen The hospital in Jamestown, Tenn., is cutting its staff but vowing not to close. The facility is in trouble because as of Wednesday, it’s been cut off from Medicare or Medicaid, and local officials fear the facility can’t make it.
Tennessee’s Struggling Rural Hospitals Seek Outside Help To Restructure
Listen Many rural hospitals across Tennessee are about to get some outside advice on how to restructure. The state has launched a program to help rural hospitals hire outside consultants, after approving $1 million a year as part of the Rural Hospital Transformation Act.
To Save Themselves, Tennessee’s Rural Hospitals Consider A New Way To Get Paid
Listen Tennessee’s rural hospitals are contemplating a new way to get paid in an effort to stave off their demise. Until now, there have been few solutions put forward — other than having the state expand TennCare to include the working poor, which is unlikely. The latest idea asks insurance companies to prop up rural […]
Florida Lab Company Buys A Third Struggling Tennessee Hospital
Listen A Florida-based firm sees opportunity in some of Tennessee’s struggling rural hospitals. Rennova Health has bought a third facility on the upper Cumberland Plateau.
Rural Tennessee Town Braces For The Inevitable Ripple Effects Of Losing Its Hospital
Listen As of 7 a.m. Friday, the small town of Celina has no functioning hospital. Cumberland River Hospital became the 11th rural hospital in Tennessee to close in recent years — more than any state but Texas. Now the remote lakeside community of 1,500 people is bracing for inevitable ripple effects, which include a blow […]
Rural Tennessee Town Braces For The Inevitable Ripple Effects Of Losing Its Hospital
Listen As of 7 a.m. Friday, the small town of Celina has no functioning hospital. Cumberland River Hospital became the 11th rural hospital in Tennessee to close in recent years — more than any state but Texas. Now the remote lakeside community of 1,500 people is bracing for inevitable ripple effects, which include a blow […]
Rural Tennessee Town Braces For The Inevitable Ripple Effects Of Losing Its Hospital
Listen As of 7 a.m. Friday, the small town of Celina has no functioning hospital. Cumberland River Hospital became the 11th rural hospital in Tennessee to close in recent years — more than any state but Texas. Now the remote lakeside community of 1,500 people is bracing for inevitable ripple effects, which include a blow […]
Comptroller Finds Troubled Hospital Remains A Financial Pit For Decatur County
Listen Decatur County General Hospital narrowly avoided closure last year and remains a threat to the overall finances of the local government. That’s a negative finding from an audit conducted by the Tennessee Comptroller.
For Some Rural Tennessee Hospitals, Sustainability Means Avoiding Repeat Customers
Listen Rural hospitals close when they don’t have enough paying patients to care for, but they’re also now penalized when the same patients show up over and over again. That puts rural hospitals in a precarious position of occasionally needing to keep people away from their care.