About 9,000 Tennessee families signed up this month for a program covering 100 diapers per month — with no co-pay or prescription.
Freestanding ERs are becoming more common. Middle Tennessee could soon have four more.
Back in 2001, freestanding facilities made up about 1% of all emergency departments across the U.S. As of last year, that number was closer to 11%.
A Sevierville woman was among 100 pregnant people who didn’t get necessary ER care post-Dobbs, report shows
A pregnant Tennessee woman didn’t get essential care from a Sevierville hospital when she was discharged with an infection in her arm, a new analysis shows.
About half of Tennessee’s rural hospitals have dropped chemotherapy over the past decade
The drop in chemotherapy services is especially concerning because of Tennessee’s high cancer rates, as an estimated 43,000 residents will get a diagnosis this year.
Tennessee is facing a blood shortage, as hurricanes and wildfires trigger nationwide drop in donations
The blood supply depends on donors. So when turnout for blood drives and clinics drops, supply does too. It’s not unusual for weather to have an impact on blood donations, but the situation now is more dire.
NashVillager Podcast: Going backwards on disease prevention
Why are HIV and syphilis on the rise among teens in one Tennessee city? Plus the local news for August 13, 2024.
The U.S. needs more Black doctors. That’s why Meharry Medical School in Nashville just got $175M.
Meharry Medical College in Nashville secured its largest donation ever on Tuesday as part of a broader investment in physician training at historically black colleges and universities.
Tennessee woman gets over 3 years in prison for blocking clinic access during protest
A Tennessee woman has been sentenced to over three years in prison for using threats and violence to interfere with the operation of a New York City reproductive health center in the early days of the pandemic in 2020.
Belmont University opens medical school amid worsening physician shortage
Some of Belmont’s neoclassical buildings — with the signature white columns, domed roofs and clock towers — date before the Civil War. But one of them is brand new. “This began just three years ago with a hole in the ground, literally,” said Dr. Anderson Spickard. He’s the dean of the new Thomas F. Frist, […]
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