Conservatives are ramping up a campaign to end transgender care for minors in Tennessee. But the journey of one Nashville teenager in the midst of a gender transition shows just how painstaking the process already is.
Tennessee hospital chiefs huddle to address hiring crisis
Tennessee hospital chiefs huddled in Franklin this weekend, largely to focus on their shared hiring crisis. The staffing shortage has not eased even as the pandemic subsides, and many hospital leaders are beginning to get used to high turnover.
Republican lawmakers threaten new restrictions unless Vanderbilt commits not to perform gender transition surgeries on minors
A letter signed by most House Republicans formally asks Vanderbilt Medical Center to halt gender transition surgeries for transgender children and teens.
For trans teens in Tennessee, state law has a limited say in guiding their care — for now
Attacks on the care of transgender teens in Middle Tennessee has prompted calls by conservatives for investigations and new laws. Right now, there isn’t but one related law on the books, and it’d be hard to break.
Guitar maker Gibson launches naloxone distribution at Franklin’s Pilgrimage Festival
Musicians and crew members were offered doses of the overdose-reversal drug naloxone as part of a targeted campaign by Gibson, the Nashville-based guitar maker.
Shareholders going after a troubled Franklin-based hospital chain may get their day in court
Shareholders of Franklin-based Community Health Systems accuse the for-profit hospital chain of downplaying its precarious finances and even hiding its troubles through accounting tricks.
Vanderbilt is the latest target in a far-right campaign against transgender health clinics
A far-right podcaster who has been leading a campaign against Boston Children’s Hospital for providing gender affirming care has now turned the sights of conservatives on a similar clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Congressional leader requests an investigation into HCA’s hospital admission practices
Nashville-based HCA, the nation’s largest private health system, has faced years of scrutiny from a powerful labor union over how it runs its emergency departments. And now Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey, is calling for a federal investigation and asking questions of his own.
Sen. Graham’s proposed federal abortion ban would still allow for stricter bans like Tennessee’s
The federal abortion restrictions proposed this week by South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham would still allow Tennessee’s all-out ban to be enforced. The 15-week restriction would just be the starting point.
Nashville expands eligibility for the monkeypox vaccine with smaller dosing
Infectious disease experts recommend that gay and bi men, and other high-risk groups get the monkeypox vaccine. But the general population can avoid the vaccine for now because of how the virus is spread.
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