Blake Farmer

Many Tennessee hospitals are in trouble as they try to stabilize after the trauma of COVID-19. The Tennessee Hospital Association has published a new survey that finds: Now that pandemic relief money has dried up, nearly half are at risk of closure.

Increasingly, private equity firms shape staffing decisions at hospital emergency rooms, research shows. One apparent effect: Hiring fewer doctors and more health care practitioners who earn far less.

Tennessee’s new commissioner of health made his first appearance before a legislative committee Wednesday, though the Republican chairman warned members not to question Dr. Ralph Alvarado about HIV funding.

Some basic testing and treatment for HIV could vanish in Nashville after the state decided to stop accepting a big grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Millions of dollars flow through the United Way of Greater Nashville to smaller local nonprofits.

Tennessee is one of the few states that requires public schools to have an automated external defibrillator — better known as an AED. After one saved Damar Hamlin during an NFL game on national television, there’s new urgency to test them out.

More than 350,000 people may lose Medicaid coverage once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends early next year, as is expected.

Clinics that care for long COVID patients are wrestling with how to handle a condition that is still poorly understood and has no widely accepted treatments.

A violation of the Tennessee Constitution is pretty easy to spot at Nashville’s Lee Chapel AME any given Sunday.

More than 700 Tennessee health care workers have signed an open letter to state lawmakers, asking them to revisit the state’s all-out abortion ban.

Conservatives are ramping up a campaign to end transgender care for minors in Tennessee. They’ve implied — without evidence — that young children are having their bodies “mutilated” on a whim. But the journey of one Nashville teenager in the midst of a gender transition shows just how painstaking the process already is.