{"id":172038,"date":"2024-09-20T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrc.org\/?p=172038"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:36:03","slug":"kff-health-news-tennessee-gives-this-hospital-monopoly-an-a-grade-even-when-it-reports-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrc.org\/kff-health-news-tennessee-gives-this-hospital-monopoly-an-a-grade-even-when-it-reports-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"KFF Health News: Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly An A Grade \u2014 Even When It Reports Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KFF Health News, May 29, 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/tennessee-a-grade-ballad-health-hospital-monopoly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly An A Grade \u2014 Even When It Reports Failure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Tennessee agency that is supposed to hold accountable and grade the nation\u2019s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly awards full credit on dozens of quality-of-care measurements as long as it reports any value \u2014 regardless of how its hospitals actually perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, has received A grades and an annual stamp of approval from the Tennessee Department of Health. This has occurred as Ballad hospitals consistently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/appalachia-ballad-health-copa-monopoly-charity-care-quality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fall short of performance targets<\/a>\u00a0established by the state, according to health department documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News, May 29, 2024, Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly An A Grade \u2014 Even When It Reports Failure A Tennessee agency that is supposed to hold accountable and grade the nation\u2019s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly awards full credit on dozens of quality-of-care measurements as long as it reports any value \u2014 regardless of 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