Rural Tennessee communities face a public health emergency due to hospital closures, provider shortages, and high rates of chronic disease. Since 2010, over a dozen rural hospitals in Tennessee have ...

A new online dashboard will allow policymakers in Tennessee to move beyond superficial data and take a deep dive into why certain rural counties struggle, experts at East Tennessee State University ...

The initiative coincides with the 150th anniversary of Meharry Medical College, a historically Black institution vital to training doctors for underserved areas. Black residents in rural Tennessee ...

A trio of bills that target some of Tennessee's most pressing rural health issues was announced Thursday. The bipartisan bills, cosponsored by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., target financial pressure ...

For several years now, the countryside has ceased to function merely as a picturesque counterpoint to the city and has instead become an active laboratory for new relationships between territory, ...