While total hospital admissions declined slightly over the four year period, uninsured admissions grew 123 percent. The massive growth was driven by recent losses in employer-sponsored healthcare and cuts to TennCare, according to a report by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies.
The area’s death rate exceeds the national average, and many of the major killers are related to factors like obesity and smoking, according to the report.
Read the Times Free Press report on Tennessee charity care losses.
Read more on recent hospital business and finance:
–Physician Shortage Projected to Be 50% Worse Than Pre-Reform Expectations
–The Implementation of New Models of Care: Q&A With Iowa Health System CEO Bill Leaver
