TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 21, 2023

An administrative law judge has rejected plans by Vanderbilt University Medical Center to establish a new Rutherford County hospital, siding with a trio of inpatient facilities already operating in and around the area, Tennessee Lookout reports. Members of a state health agency panel earlier had approved Vanderbilt’s plans to build a new $144 million hospital but Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital, TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center and Williamson Medical Center appealed the decision. The judge overturned the decision saying Vanderbilt had failed to show the need for a new facility.