As state administrators throughout Appalachia grapple with mounting health care costs, a new resource is offering assistance to policymakers by taking lessons from success stories outside...
At 7 a.m. on March 1, Cumberland River Hospital ceased providing care to the citizens of Clay County, Tennessee. As the county’s director of emergency services,...
Fewer residents of Appalachia will have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in 2019 than the year before. Enrollment numbers are down throughout the region,...
Citizens were concerned. They voiced those concerns. And it appears their voices were heard. When it was announced in August that Nashville-based HCA Healthcare had reached...
Appalachians have a 5 percent higher incidence of malignant brain tumors and other central nervous system tumors than the rest of the U.S. That’s according to...
This is the second story in a two-part series about the sale of North Carolina’s Mission Health to the national HCA Healthcare. Read the first part of the series here. As North Carolina’s attorney general deliberates over whether to approve the sale of the nonprofit Mission Health System to for-profit Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA, a citizens...
