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In 2014, some 1.4 million of Tennessee's 6.6 million people received direct services in the 89 rural county health departments or the six metropolitan county health departments. [1] Each year the department, in collaboration with many communities, creates a state health plan [2] to help provide direction for the department.
However, what I quickly learned was that in Tennessee there are laws and regulations that not only make providing good treatment more challenging, but that actually prohibit medical professionals ...
TennCare was started in the early 1990s under Governor Ned McWherter as a health care reform initiative that had the twin goals of controlling rising Medicaid costs and increasing public access to affordable health care. [2] [3] [4] Tennessee sought and obtained waivers from the federal Health Care Financing Administration that allowed the ...
The function of nursing care plans has changed drastically over the past several decades. In 1953, care planning was not believed to be within the nursing scope of practice. [5] In the 1970s, care planning was activity based. [5] Patients were listed according to the procedures they were having done, which determined their plan of care. [5]
The Tennessee Code Commission is 1 of the 30 or more commissions, boards, and committees that provide assistance to the state court system. The commission consists of five members of which three are ex officio : the Chief Justice of Tennessee , the attorney general and reporter , and the director of legal services for the legislature .
Tennessee instituted its abortion ban two months after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the federal right to abortion with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in June 2022.
[287] 2.3 million of the approximately 4.6 million people aged 18–64 with undiagnosed diabetes in 2009–2010 may also have gained access to zero-cost preventative care due to section 2713 of the ACA, which prohibits cost sharing for United States Preventive Services Taskforce grade A or B recommended services, such as diabetes screenings.
Senate Bill 1556 (SB 1556), officially called An act to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 49 and Title 63, relative to conscientious objections to the provision of counseling and therapy, is a 2016 anti-LGBT law in the state of Tennessee that allows licensed counselors in private practice to terminate care or refer away clients because of moral objections to how the client identifies.