Elizabeth Fite

Economics professor Larry Van Horn wasn't concerned last March when he had an upper respiratory infection.

A primary care clinic on Lee Highway that targeted vulnerable and unconventional patients — including families who did not want to vaccinate their children — was abruptly closed last month after allegations it was operating illegally.

Updated hospital quality ratings released by the federal government last month despite backlash from hospital advocates allow patients to compare health systems based on certain quality metrics, including mortality, safety, efficiency and patient experience.

Tennessee health officials confirmed that the state has zero cases of the novel coronavirus as the total cases in the United States rose to 12 on Wednesday.

Slowing revenue growth, loss of some doctors and "expense challenges" prompted a major bond rating service to downgrade its assessment of Erlanger Health System's fiscal health this week.

Three out of four drug-related deaths in Hamilton County last year involved methamphetamine or fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine — according to provisional data from the county medical examiner.

The opioid epidemic was in its infancy when Scott Elam, the risk manager and director of training for Wright Brothers Construction Company, first learned five years ago that his company needed to change its approach to addiction.

Cempa Community Care is now designated as a community health center by the federal government, enabling the nonprofit to expand its income-based primary care services to cover anyone — not just patients with infectious diseases.

As concern among world health officials over a new coronavirus mounted Wednesday, local health officials are reminding Southeast Tennessee residents that their risk of contracting the potentially dangerous disease is low.

Telemedicine, also called telehealth, provides long-distance clinical health care using electronic information and telecommunication technologies.

Influenza is to blame for at least two child deaths in Hamilton County so far this flu season, according to data from the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department.

A new report from the Tennessee Comptroller's Office found that 79% of opioid prescribers with abnormal prescribing patterns have not been recently disciplined and are not under investigation by the Tennessee Department of Health

Providers and state legislators continue to clash with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee over the insurer's plan to lower costs for some self-funded employer groups by targeting provider-administered specialty drugs — the most expensive of all pharmaceuticals.

The second quarter financial report was released at the Erlanger Board of Trustees' budget and finance committee meeting Monday evening and summarizes the hospital's performance from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, 2019.

Parkridge Health System is joining the East Hamilton health care wars, adding an emergency department to the bustling Shallowford Road medical area.

Zandra Strickland has lived in her Orchard Knob home for 18 years, but until recently she was worried her days there might be numbered.

Ava has ascended to the top spot on the list of most popular names for baby girls born in Tennessee in 2019.

A Chattanooga college student has a plan to make grocery shopping less stressful for people with food allergies.

The health of low-income people declined more in Southern states that didn't expand Medicaid than in those Southern states that did, with Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama ranking worst, respectively, according to a new study.

A 40-something-year-old health care regulation meant to control costs that may actually do the opposite is a likely legislative target for Tennessee's General Assembly in 2020.