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.
Medicaid Expansion Shows Starkest Contrast Between Tennessee Gubernatorial Contenders
Listen Democrat Karl Dean is banking on Medicaid expansion as his winning issue in Tennessee’s race for governor, while Republican Bill Lee claims the plan would be detrimental. The opposing views represent the sharpest divide between the candidates.
Rural Hospitals Owned By Investors More Likely To Close Amid Financial Hardship, Report Finds
A disproportionate share of the rural hospitals that have closed in the last five years were owned by for-profit companies, including some based in Nashville, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
What LifePoint’s Merger Says About The State Of Rural Hospitals
Listen The proposed buyout of LifePoint Health, a hospital operator based in Brentwood, sheds some light on the state of rural health care: Analysts say companies that run small-town hospitals have to be leaner and more nimble.
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