With more than 2,500 COVID patients in Tennessee hospitals and climbing, every hospital needs staffing help. But hospital administrators don’t expect to have soldiers in fatigues treating patients at the bedside.
Tennessee Hospital Chief: Sick Nurses And A Shortage Of Contractors Are Limiting Capacity
Tennessee hospitals are calling off elective procedures again, doubling up hospital rooms and converting recovery rooms into intensive care units, according to the Tennessee Hospital Association. These changes come as hospitals are seeing twice as many patients with COVID-19 as they were in early October, surpassing 1,800 current hospitalizations on Monday.
Nashville’s Public Health Chief Calls Departure For Hospital Post Bad Timing But Perfect Opportunity
Listen Nashville’s top public health official is leaving her post after just eight months on the job. Dr. Wendy Long will take over as CEO of the Tennessee Hospital Association in mid-October.
Doomed From The Start: Tennessee May Just Scrap Computer System For Determining Who Gets Medicaid
TennCare hired Northrop Grumman to build a system that supposed to be done a year and a half ago and remains nowhere near complete.
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