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Article: TENNESSEE RECORDS: FLAP NEWSPAPER SEEKS JOHNSON CITY HOSPITAL'S BOARD MINUTES.
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- Modern Healthcare
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- August 24, 1998
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Johnson City (Tenn.) Medical Center, which just won Federal Trade Commission permission to buy six area hospitals from Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., now finds itself in another legal scrape. It's being sued by the newspaper in a bordering town for not handing over documents the newspaper wants to write about.
The newspaper, the Kingsport Times-News, paid $100 to become a member of the hospital corporation in 1996.
"The Tennessee code does provide that a not-for-profit hospital must maintain minutes of all meetings of boards of directors," Times-News Managing Editor Ted Como said. "It also provides for inspection of those minutes by members of the corporation. ...