Ballad Health

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Ballad Health
FormerlyWellmont Health Systems/Mountain States Health Alliance
IndustryHealth care
Founded2018
Headquarters408 N State of Franklin Rd., Johnson City, Tennessee,
United States
Area served
 Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky
Number of employees
13,800 [1]
Website www.balladhealth.org

Ballad Health is a chain of hospitals headquartered in Johnson City, Tennessee. [2] It includes facilities in Tennessee and Virginia. Some of its locations are also urgent care centers and primary care locations. [3] They operate a blood bank, named Marsh Regional Blood Center. [4]

Contents

The healthcare system's website states that its service area includes 29 counties, some of which are in Kentucky and North Carolina. [5]

The current Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ballad Health is Alan Levine. [6] Levine's compensation for 2023 was $3,557,360 plus $247,091 in other payments. [7] Under Levine's leadership, Ballad's strategy has included closing many healthcare centers in rural areas, which has led to a healthcare monopoly across the region. [8] Levine also previously co-chaired the healthcare transition for Governor Rick Scott, whose company was fined a record $1.7 Billion for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. [9]

History

Ballad Health was created in 2018 when Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health Systems agreed to merge together through the issuance of a certificate of public advantage (COPA) in Tennessee and a similar document known as a cooperative agreement in Virginia.

Lee County Community Hospital, which had closed in 2013, was reopened by Ballad Health in July 2021. [10]

Dennis Barry, who consulted for the Southwest Virginia Health Authority as a monitor, stated that the Ballad merger meant that healthcare access in portions of Virginia did not collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic. [11]

In 2022, they started a virtual urgent care option. [12]

In August, 2023, they posted their first net operating loss for the fiscal year 2023 with a loss of 40 million dollars. [13]

Service area

The system's official service area includes the following counties in the Appalachian region: [14]

Hospitals

Tennessee
Virginia

References

  1. ↑ Miller, Nic (February 18, 2022). "Ballad Health announces many initiatives to keep employees after vaccine mandate". www.elizabethton.com.
  2. ↑ Floyd, David (April 25, 2021). "Ballad Health keeps eyes on mission during pandemic". Johnson City Press . Retrieved December 20, 2021. 303 Med Tech Parkway - The address is in Johnson City.
  3. ↑ Porter-Nichols, Stephanie (February 6, 2023). "Urgent care clinic at Marion hospital reopens". SWVA Today. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  4. ↑ Smith, Josh (August 17, 2018). "Ballad chooses Marsh Regional Blood Center as exclusive blood supplier". WJHL. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Ballad Health. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  6. ↑ Ballad Health (December 8, 2024). "Leadership". Ballad Health. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  7. ↑ ProPublica (December 8, 2024). "Ballad Health Executive Compensation". ProPublica. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  8. ↑ Kelman, Brett (December 6, 2024). "Six years into an Appalachia hospital monopoly, patients are fearful and furious". Tennessee Lookout. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  9. ↑ Florida Democratic Party (February 25, 2014). "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says". PolitiFact. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  10. ↑ Keeling, Jeff (March 12, 2021). "Consultant to Va. oversight board: Without merger savings, Lee Co. Community Hospital may not have reopened". WJHL . Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  11. ↑ Rife, Luanne (March 11, 2021). "Without Ballad merger, monitor says Virginians could have lost health care when they needed it most". The Roanoke Times . Retrieved December 20, 2021.
  12. ↑ Keeling, Jeff (November 16, 2022). "Get 'seen' from home: Ballad rolls out virtual urgent care option". WJHL. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Ballad operating loss $40 million for fiscal year '23". WJHL. August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  14. ↑ "After four years of #BalladHealth, we are proud to serve approximately 1.2 million people across the @AppHighlands region. Every year, our commitment to expanding access to rural healthcare grows stronger". Ballad Health (official Twitter account). February 4, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2022. - Closeup of the image
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