Franklin-based Psychiatric Solutions Inc. has purchased four inpatient psychiatric facilities from Heartland Healthcare of New York City in a $47 million transaction.
In addition, Psychiatric Solutions has acquired a contract from Heartland to manage an inpatient psychiatric unit in a facility owned by a third party.
The four psychiatric facilities are a 126-bed licensed hospital in Summit, [...]

Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann has never been guided by either the dictates of record labels or any desire to follow prevailing trends. Some 14 years ago, she left Epic after turning down their request that ‘Til Tuesday work with what the company deemed more commercially oriented writers. She formed Super Ego Records after tiring of even [...]

Understatement isn’t a quality usually associated with any Adam Sandler film property, yet that’s precisely what made his recent film 50 First Dates, one of his better movies that comes to DVD June 15.
The premise featured Sandler dating a woman with no short-term memory (Drew Barrymore). As a result, she would never remember any of [...]

The Rhodia Co. phosphate plant in Nashville is among four such facilities in the United States being sold by France’s biggest specialty chemicals maker to Bain Capital LLC.
Rhodia SA announced Friday it agreed to sell its North American phosphates unit to Boston-based Bain Capital for $550 million, the sixth divestiture Rhodia has made as it [...]

Sona International, which recently located to Nashville from Virginia Beach, Va., brings a lot of promise for growth and an experienced new chief executive, Jim Amos, as its new chairman. The company is offering franchises worldwide that provide laser medical spa services for a variety of conditions.
Sona Laser Centers franchises, now called Sona Med Spas, [...]

f the Charles Hawkins Field grass seemed buzz-cut and the dirt packed like a February snowball Tuesday, don’t blame Tim Corbin. Credit him instead.
Vanderbilt’s head coach swears he didn’t doctor the facilities for the team’s last two practices before heading to Austin for the NCAA Super Regional showdown with No. 1 seed Texas, which opens [...]

Jay Grinney, the new president of HealthSouth Corp., has almost snared one of his major goals since taking command of the troubled company last month.
The company has negotiated a settlement with its bondholders.
HealthSouth, accused by U.S. regulators of accounting fraud, has agreed to pay bondholders a premium of as much as $80 million to waive [...]

When local attorney David Raybin took Metro Police Assistant Chief Mickey Miller’s case last month he knew he wouldn’t win an appeal to the Civil Service Commission. From day one, he was preparing for a lawsuit.
Miller, a 27-year department veteran, was “rolled back” to the rank of captain when five Civil Service protected assistant chief [...]

Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TEL) officials say each week ticket sales have generally decreased across-the-board. However, they say, these sales will eventually flatten out and remain steady.
“We’re not surprised at all,” said TEL spokesperson Kym Gerlock. “It took longer than we thought to see such a decline.”
The Power Ball game has been the sole exception [...]

Mas tropas de medio Tennessee recibieron una orden de permanecer mas tiempo en Iraq. Esto significa que aunque hallan cumplido con su servicios estaran lejos de casa por un largo tiempo hasta que el govierno decida. Miembros de la unidd mas grande de la guardia nacional, 278, estan listos para ser mobilizados a Iraq. Los [...]

For the family seeking a fabulous new home in a gracious neighborhood with lots of space and close-in convenience, 3439 Hampton Ave. may be just the ticket.
“This is a true masterpiece,” co-listing agent Dana Griscom said of the 8,056-square-foot washed-brick dwelling slated for completion this fall. “It’s a lovely new residence built on an old, [...]

Historic Edgefield, one of Nashville’s most charming and architecturally diverse urban residential districts, will hold its 29th Annual Tour of Homes from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Long a Nashville home tour staple, the event will feature eight homes, two churches, a museum and a tearoom. As part of the tour, Hobbs House, one [...]

The Tennessee Justice Center needs to lay off the state of Tennessee and Gov. Phil Bredesen in court until the TennCare situation is straightened out in Washington.
Bredesen thought he had brokered such an agreement during the General Assembly when legislation to reform TennCare was being considered.
Now, the Tennessee Justice Center is taking the state back [...]

SAT Regional? The gathering in which Vanderbilt baseball will participate in Charlottesville this weekend is better dubbed the MIA Regional.
Absent from NCAA play since 1980, the Commodores are the most distant stranger but far from the only one among the four teams.
The top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers are hosting a regional for the first time and are [...]

Courtney Kupets looked as though she had never been away in claiming first place in the all-around individual competition of the women’s senior preliminary event Thursday in the U.S. Gymnastics Championships at Gaylord Entertainment Center.
Kupets had been out for nine months because of a left Achilles’ injury, and had only an international event, which she [...]

Talk about timely. The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo now playing at The Belcourt Theatre, deals with Arabs fighting against the French occupation of Algeria in the ’50s, similar in ways of course to the U.S. occupation of Iraq going on right now.
The Algerians and French soldiers are constantly at war [...]

Brentwood-based Province Healthcare Co. has acquired through a long-term lease Memorial Medical Center of Las Cruces, N.M. The 40-year lease acquisition is from The City of Las Cruces and The County of Dona Ana for $150 million.
The 256-bed acute-care hospital has annualized revenues of approximately $144 million and serves a population of about 250,000 people. [...]

The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) has received its fourth federal HOPE VI grant and plans to start the redevelopment of the John Henry Hale Homes in North Nashville next year.
The grants literally transform aging and decrepit public housing developments into modern, appealing homes.
“This new grant is a clear sign of how successful Nashville [...]

The numerous problems in America’s criminal justice system are frequently examined, analyzed and discussed. But they are seldom exposed as fully or completely as in author Edward Conlon’s new book Blue Blood (Riverhead).
Conlon is in a most unique position to explore these issues. Currently a detective with the New York City Police Department, he has [...]

Friends of Warner Parks is acquiring 111 additional acres along Highway 100 to add to Percy and Edwin Warner Parks in West Nashville.
With more than 2,600 acres of forest and open land, the Warner Parks are the largest municipally administered parks in Tennessee.
Local Developer John Rochford, who presides over the Board of Friends of Warner [...]

Laws regulating trusts in Tennessee are about to change, as starting July 1 a new statute, which liberalizes and specifies certain provisions of the state’s trust law, becomes effective.
The new regulations, known as Tennessee’s Uniform Trust Code, was enacted during the General Assembly’s recently completed session. It is part of a national campaign of the [...]