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The report from Patient Rights Advocate found that 50% of Tennessee hospitals are not fully compliant with the rule, which advocates argue gives patients the information they need to find the best ...
A federal lawsuit says a woman who died last February shouldn't have been discharged from a Tennessee hospital, forced to leave despite her pleas for more help and unassisted by security guards ...
Anchored by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the district is home to major hospitals, emergency rooms, physicians' offices, medical supply manufacturers and distributors, and medical laboratories. It will soon house the headquarters of BioMedical Works. Some of the hospitals and health service providers in this district include:
Hillside Hospital is a for profit Hospital with 95 beds located on 1265 East College Street in Pulaski, Tennessee. In 2013, Hillside was purchased by LifePoint Hospitals of Brentwood, Tennessee . Shortly after being acquired, Hillside was rebranding along with four other rural hospitals in south central Tennessee.
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital is a community and safety net hospital in Pikeville, Tennessee. It serves residents of a rural three-county area along the Cumberland Plateau and Sequatchie Valley. Services include emergency care, family medicine, a cardiac rehabilitation program, and a 25-bed inpatient unit.
The Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which provided federal assistance for the construction of community hospitals, established nondiscrimination requirements for institutions that received such federal assistance—including the requirement that a "reasonable volume" of free emergency care be provided for community members who could not pay—for a period for 20 years after the hospital's construction.
The hospital no longer has a contract with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, which had partnered with Cape Cod Hospital’s open-heart program since its inception in 2002.
Lee County Community Hospital, which had closed in 2013, was reopened by Ballad Health in July 2021. [ 10 ] Dennis Barry, who consulted for the Southwest Virginia Health Authority as a monitor, stated that the Ballad merger meant that healthcare access in portions of Virginia did not collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic .