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Medicaid access is vital to rural Tennesseans; the state just made it harder to keep | Healthcare Hollow

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By Pierce Gentry Verified
| WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN) Verified
13-year-old Journey Cottle and her father, Keith, are among dozens of TennCare enrollees who are suing the agency due to defects and errors in its renewal process. In February, attorneys from TennCare and the Tennessee Justice Center sat on opposite sides of an assembly room in the state capitol building. They faced a joint committee of House and Senate members who would decide whether the state’s provider of the federal Medicaid program could change its own rules.
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This Tennessee town’s only hospital closed without warning. Two years later it still hasn’t reopened. | Healthcare Hollow Original

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By Pierce Gentry Verified
| WUOT News Verified
A little over two years ago, a piece of paper was taped to the front doors of the Jellico Regional Hospital near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line. “The hospital is currently on diversion and will be closing the hospital and emergency room,” the paper read. For many locals, it came as a shock. Beldon Stanaford says he knew for several years that the 25-bed hospital was struggling, but didn’t expect its closure to be so sudden.
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UT student recounts attempt on Trump’s life at White House Correspondents’ dinner Original

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By Pierce Gentry Verified
| WUOT News Verified
When chaos erupted Saturday evening at the White House Correspondents’ dinner, one University of Tennessee student was sitting just yards away from President Donald Trump. Gail Fanning, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee is studying journalism and political science. It’s long been her dream to report from Capitol Hill. She says she was excited to spend an evening rubbing elbows with some of D.C.’s most influential lawmakers and the journalists who cover them.
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