One of my first forays into journalism was this piece on a long running protest of a 2018 hospital consolidation across rural East Tennessee & SWVA. In the years since, the system has failed to meet multiple benchmarks. scalawagmagazine.org/2020/04/appa...

Profit over people: Inside an Appalachian struggle to save rural healthcare – Scalawag

For years, hospital privatization schemes have put profit over people.

This investigation just revealed Ballad Health took thousands of patients to court over unpaid bill, failed to fulfill its charity obligations to the state, and has failed to meet 80% of basic care benchmarks. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

These Appalachia Hospitals Made Big Promises to Gain a Monopoly. They’re Failing to Deliver. - KFF...

Ballad Health, the only hospital system across a large swath of Tennessee and Virginia, has fallen short of quality-of-care and charity care obligations — even as it’s sued thousands of patients f...