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Federal judge orders protesters to stay away from the Mt. Juliet abortion clinic

Blake Farmer

August 2, 2022

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A federal judge has ordered anti-abortion protesters to stay away from the only abortion clinic still operating in Middle Tennessee. Abortions are only allowed up to six weeks gestation, but not for long.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, carafem, Jason Storms, Operation Save America, Waverly Crenshaw

They lost TennCare when paperwork was sent to a pasture, signaling the mess to come

Brett Kelman of KFF Health News

August 2, 2022

Three years ago, Mason Lester, a rambunctious toddler, tumbled off his family’s porch and broke his wrist. His mother, nine months pregnant, rushed him to a nearby hospital, where she made a confounding discovery: Their health insurance had vanished.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Medicaid, TennCare

With Roe v. Wade gone, we want to hear your stories about getting healthcare in Middle Tennessee

WPLN Staff

August 1, 2022

We want to hear your stories about life after Roe v. Wade. Have you faced any obstacles receiving reproductive care, including contraceptives? Have you had to travel out of state to receive abortion care? Are you currently pregnant and concerned about giving birth in Tennessee?

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, birth control, contraception, pregnancy

Vanderbilt reports a rare cluster of viral infections, likely linked to COVID precautions

Blake Farmer

August 1, 2022

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Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital has seen an unexplained cluster of viral infections in infants under three months old in what is likely one more example of COVID precautions changing how another virus spreads.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: parechovirus, Ritu Banerjee, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

Metro Police warn dangerous fentanyl-laced drugs are everywhere downtown

Blake Farmer

July 27, 2022

Metro Police are warning that dangerous fentanyl is showing up in all kinds of street drugs, but especially cocaine that’s sold in downtown Nashville.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: drug overdose, fentanyl, Metro Police, Mike Hotz

Tennessee’s full abortion ban will go into effect Aug. 25

Blake FarmerandMarianna Bacallao

July 26, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its judgement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Tuesday, the decision overturning Roe v. Wade. That starts the clock on Tennessee’s so-called trigger law.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Criminal Justice, Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Herbert Slatery

More than 2,000 monkeypox vaccines have arrived in Tennessee. Now what?

Blake Farmer

July 26, 2022

Access to the monkeypox vaccine remains limited in Tennessee, despite more than 2,000 doses being delivered to the state.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: monkeypox, vaccine, Vaccines

Private takeover of struggling Houston County hospital approved by Tennessee AG

Blake Farmer

July 26, 2022

Beau Braden

The Tennessee Attorney General has signed off on the sale of Houston County’s hospital to private investors in a letter dated July 19. The buyer, Florida-based Braden Health, has been snapping up several distressed or closed hospitals in the state.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Braden Health, Erin, Houston County, James Bridges, Tennessee Attorney General

After helping her husband through a mental health crisis, one Nashville woman wonders why help is so hard to find

Tasha A.F. Lemley

July 18, 2022

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We want to believe that there is going to be help when we need it. That when we call for help for a family member in an emergency, it’s all going to work out. But for Ellie Kane, it wasn’t so simple.

Filed Under: Features, Health Care, WPLN News

In Middle Tennessee, several hospitals are still haunted by a failed billing scheme

Blake Farmer

July 18, 2022

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Part of Perry Community Hospital’s financial collapse was due to losing a contract with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which is still demanding the hospital pay back $5 million in overbilling for inflated lab testing.

Filed Under: Business, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: lab billing, Perry Community Hospital, Perry County, rural health, rural hospitals, Wess Ward

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