[4] 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.
[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.
This new kind of healthcare organization is made possible through state oversight and was created with the support of local business community, physicians, educators and countless other people who have a stake in improving the health of the Southern Appalachia region.
Lee County Community Hospital, which had closed in 2013, was reopened by Ballad Health in July 2021.