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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 28, 2022

Gov. Bill Lee has announced that Kentucky doctor and legislator Ralph Alvarado will take over as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health on Jan. 16. Alvarado is a sitting Kentucky state senator and chief executive officer of Alvarado Medical Services. A release from the governor’s office states that Alvarado has decades of experience as an attending physician and in hospital management. He will succeed Interim Health Commissioner Dr. Morgan McDonald.