Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade — Even When It Reports Failure By Brett Kelman MAY 29, 2024

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/tennessee-a-grade-ballad-health-hospital-monopoly/?utm_campaign=KHN%20-%20Weekly%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8mNX4IfWsSLhPlYIE1imdW8q7mhi4CpWGwWID6tG7MmO2K54lYEJ3p01evbl3wMgKNMNUnRT9MXZNNqtghVjm4xlTd5Q&_hsmi=309622936&utm_content=309622936&utm_source=hs_email Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade — Even When It Reports Failure By Brett Kelman Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.