The suicide rate increased by more than 10% from 2015 to 2019.
Program pairing police officers with mental health clinicians will now cover entire Davidson County
The Metro Nashville Police Department’s Partners in Care program, which pairs officers with experts from the Mental Health Cooperative, goes county-wide today.
University of Tennessee’s medical school could see a tuition hike and layoffs
The school’s advisory board is recommending the largest tuition increase in 5 years at 2.9%. Most of that revenue would go to scholarships, not operations — which is where the university is struggling.
Oracle’s Larry Ellison says planned Nashville campus will be company’s ‘world headquarters’
Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison says the business software giant’s planned campus in Nashville, Tennessee, will serve as its world headquarters and place it in a city that’s a center of the health care industry. Ellison spoke about Oracle’s plans for its Nashville offices during a conversation about health care technology with former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist at the Oracle Health Summit on Tuesday.
Tennessee is distributing $80 million in opioid settlement funds. Here’s what to know.
Tennessee is one of many states that sued opioid manufacturers, distributors and marketers. The companies settled, and the state brought in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Report finds Hispanic Tennesseans are more likely to be uninsured and miss out on cancer screenings
A national report on racial disparities in health care finds that Hispanic Tennesseans were much less likely to access critical screenings such as mammograms.
Feds want to shield medical records as Tennessee proposes travel bans for minor’s reproductive care
Lawmakers are working to crack down on adults who support minors seeking abortion or gender-affirming care at the same time that federal officials are considering additional protections for medical records.
Tennessee’s ban on abortion help for minors nears the finish line
It could soon be a crime to help Tennessee teenagers get an abortion. A bill passed out of the Senate and has one vote left in the House. Like many abortion policies, vague wording leaves a lot open to interpretation.
Seven Tennessee women were denied medically necessary abortions. They just had their first day in court.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, seven patients and two doctors are arguing that Tennesseans are being wrongfully denied medically needed abortions because state law vagueness leaves doctors in the lurch.
Cyberattacks are ramping up. Some Tennessee lawmakers want to make it harder to sue companies for data leaks.
About 20 Tennessee-based health care companies have reported data breaches in the past few years, and several of them have faced lawsuits afterward.
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