Senator Lamar Alexander Tuesday said on the Senate floor that a new Trump administration rule will help curb the trend of rural hospital closures in Tennessee by updating the formula that determines how much hospitals will be reimbursed by Medicare. “Last month, Alan Levine, who leads Ballad Health, a health care system in East Tennessee, announced a $10 million investment ... (click for more)

Cempa Community Care will be hosting the inaugural Ryan White Clinics for 340B Access National Conference on Aug. 1 from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at The Chattanoogan. Cocktails and social to follow. Click here to register. The conference was organized as an opportunity for those affiliated with Ryan White Clinics to come together in one location for the first time, allowing grantees ... (click for more)

Chattanooga Police said the incident in which one man was killed and two others injured at an apartment near the UTC campus involved shots being fired through a locked door. Police have arrested both suspects involved in the fatal shooting Sunday. Omerrieal Woods was apprehended Monday evening by the Chattanooga Police Department's Fugitive Unit with assistance from the ... (click for more)

A Chattanooga man who spent 14 1/2 years at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is set to go back behind bars. Gary Dewayne Cross, 42, on Tuesday was sentenced by Judge Travis McDonough to serve eight years in federal prison. He had initially been facing much more time with an initial guideline range of 262-327 months due to his meeting the category of an armed career criminal. ... (click for more)

Back a long time ago, when I was in high school at McCallie, us students were afforded a lot of freedoms. But those freedoms came with the expectation that you knew, above all else, to be honest and truthful. From the outset, this was always assumed to be the case. For example, if you missed a test, you could take it at home and return it the following day, along with a signed statement ... (click for more)

I know precious little about hot water heaters except for Rule No. 1 – when one that’s older than your youngest child starts leaving a pool of water on the kitchen floor, “take low and go.” Replace the thing and forget about it. I don’t want to discuss it, don’t want be a prudent buyer by taking half the day to study it, and I am not about to drive all over town to find the best ... (click for more)