Federal dollars arrive at a critical moment for rural hospitals facing workforce shortages and financial instability.

As Congress wrestles with the need to trim spending, attention has turned to Medicaid, and to a lesser extent, Medicare. These are hardly new issues. Within seven years of the 1965 enactment of ...

A portion of Tennessee’s federal grant money from the Trump administration’s Rural Health Transformation Program may depend on state lawmakers’ ability to pass legislation eliminating the certificate ...

Tennessee’s Medicaid program has launched an effort to better integrate patients’ physical and mental healthcare, with the aim of saving state and federal money and improving patient care, according ...

Social factors like affordable housing, transportation, and food access significantly impact health outcomes. Wellpoint ...

Protecting tour assets while ensuring access to essential long-term care coverage. The statistics are sobering — more than 70% of Americans over age 65 will need some form of long-term care during ...

Tennessee opioid deaths dropped by more than 30% from November 2023 to 2024, but threats to Medicaid threaten to derail that progress.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Researchers are concerned that Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital and eight others across Tennessee could close due to proposed Medicaid cuts. Researchers warned that ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Researchers are concerned that Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital and eight others across Tennessee could close due to proposed Medicaid cuts. Researchers warned that ...

As a dual board-certified nurse practitioner, my approach to mental health care is centered on seeing each patient as a whole person. I recognize that mental health is deeply interconnected with ...