Tennessee Right to Life is supporting a measure that would add exceptions to the state’s abortion law. The changes they made assure the group no abortions will take place unless they save the life of the mother.
Gov. Bill Lee signs into law a ban on drag shows. Performers say it’s too subjective.
Lee signed the measure Thursday afternoon, just hours after it passed in the Senate. Lee also signed a measure banning gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.
Physicians show support for bill to add clarity to Tennessee’s strict abortion law
A bill made to clear up when a physician can legally perform an abortion was on a Tennessee Senate committee agenda this week. Physicians in support say the changes are necessary.
Tennessee hospitals are cutting services under post-pandemic financial pressure, according to survey
Many Tennessee hospitals are in trouble as they try to stabilize after the trauma of COVID-19. The Tennessee Hospital Association has published a new survey that finds: Now that pandemic relief money has dried up, nearly half are at risk of closure.
With abortion mostly outlawed in the South, patients and clinics are crossing state lines
People seeking abortions are faced with increased costs of travel, time off work and childcare.
A leading anti-abortion group is feuding with Republicans over revising the Tennessee’s abortion law
Republicans are trying to clean up the state’s abortion law to more explicitly allow doctors to save the life of a pregnant person. But that proposal is drawing fire from the state’s leading anti-abortion group.
5 questions for WPLN’s Blake Farmer before he says goodbye
WPLN’s senior health care reporter Blake Farmer is leaving Nashville Public Radio. Blake has been at WPLN for 18 years in a variety of roles — news director, morning host, you name it — beginning just after college when he freelanced his way into a full-time reporter role.
Tennessee Republicans are making permanent a rule to shield businesses from COVID-related litigation
Tennessee Republicans are taking temporary rules and making them permanent to try to shield businesses from COVID-related litigation, along with other COVID-era protections. The legislation is moving quickly, and with little debate.
ERs staffed by private equity firms aim to cut costs by hiring fewer doctors
Pregnant and scared, Natasha Valle went to Clarksville’s Tennova Healthcare hospital in January 2021 because she was bleeding. She didn’t know much about miscarriage, but this seemed like one.
TennCare uses scare tactics and aggressive enforcement to root out fraud. With millions spent, the agency has little to show for it.
The state’s low-income health insurance program, TennCare, funds an outside unit dedicated to rooting out potential fraud. After millions of dollars spent each year, it has less and less to show for the effort aside from slapping Tennesseans with felonies unnecessarily.
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