Blake Farmer
Senior Healthcare ReporterBlake Farmer is Nashville Public Radio's senior health care reporter. In a partnership with Kaiser Health News and NPR, Blake covers health in Tennessee and the health care industry in the Nashville area for local and national audiences.
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Former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Glen Casada and his chief of staff, Cade Cothren, have been arrested on bribery and conspiracy charges. -
Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, they're selling for next to nothing. One company is snapping several distressed or closed hospitals in rural Tennessee, hoping to turn a profit. -
Festival promoters are allowing lifesaving medication as fentanyl deaths surge, but volunteers are often left to distribute it, and more controversial forms of harm reduction aren't openly allowed. -
The YMCA and the Boys & Girls Club are planning nearly 10,000 new childcare spots across Tennessee with the state’s help. The money is coming from what’s left of COVID stimulus funding. -
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its judgement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Tuesday, the decision overturning Roe v. Wade. That starts the clock on Tennessee’s so-called trigger law. -
Reproductive rights proponents worry about the risk of counseling those who seek medication abortions, though they've published online support techniques and guides for safe use of the drugs. -
The legislature expanded the home-based programs this spring in response to a recent study by the Tennessee Comptroller. -
The impending reversal of Roe v. Wade generated a wave of questions. -
The number of abortions carried out in Tennessee has been dropping for the last decade as Republicans have imposed more restrictions. At this point, Black women account for roughly half of all the state’s abortions, driving equity concerns as an all-out ban looms. -
A leaked majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, which has protected abortion rights since 1973.
