NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee in celebrating a newly enacted law requiring all Tennessee high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games. Lee signed the legislation earlier this year, but held a formal ceremony Tuesday marking the “Smart Heart Act” at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School.
NashVillager Podcast: Hospitals in Tennessee
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For LGBTQ Tennesseans, aging comes with added challenges
May is Older Americans Month — set aside by the federal government to bring awareness to the unique needs of people as they age. Across the country, the National Institutes of Health find that older adults in the LGBTQ community face systemic barriers to housing access, healthcare and social belonging.
Fewer future obstetricians are applying to train in Tennessee, study shows
Soon-to-be medical school graduates are showing less interest in Tennessee’s OB-GYN residencies, according to new research by the Association of American Medical Schools.
Tennessee pharmacies must accommodate visually impaired patients under new policy
About 200,000 Tennesseans are visiually impaired, and they can have a hard time managing prescription medications. That will be easier now because of a policy that went into effect this year.
Tennessee is putting $80M into rural health workforce programming. Here’s how.
Not everything on Gov. Bill Lee’s wish list made it into the state budget this year, but lawmakers did sign off on his plan to invest in access to health care for rural Tennesseans.
Suicide is becoming more common in Tennessee. Federal health officials have a new strategy to address the problem.
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.
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