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62 PREDATORS LACKHAWKS IN SPORTS Predators make Game 2 a rout with big third period. On 1C IN BUSINESS Gametime app is in Nashville. 1D SERIES TIED 1-1 SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015 VOL. 111, NO. 108 GANNETT INC.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SUBSCRIBE: 1-800-342-8237 Metro State pricing varies See pricing details inside swingers club to church Among proposed changes, the room will now be used for the 3A It left more than a half-century ago, but baseball is back at Sulphur Dell. A nd though the clock was ticking, Mayor Karl Deanand irst Tennessee construction crew got it done on time. Fans soaked in history and views of the downtown skyline. Neighbors watched from balconies of condos beyond center field. Kids munched on hot dogs and cotton candy.

A brass and welcomed visitors. And baseball, at 7:09 p.m. on Friday ight, returned to North Nashville near Jefferson Street. been a long time coming, and it is a thrill for me as a baseball fan to be part of Dean said, kicking off a pre- game ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the new home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds on its inaugural night. will be JOHN PARTIPILO THE TENNESSEAN Todd Sweat and sons Owen and Ford get excited in the bottom of the ninth inning on opening night at First Tennessee Park.

The Sounds won 3-2 in 10 innings. LIKE OLD IMES AT NEW PARK MORE INSIDE Four former ashville Vols reunited in first game at new ark. On 14A Fans say First ennessee Park has league 14A Sounds win first game in ew park in 10th inning. On 1C SOUNDS, 14A Joey Garrison Four rural hospitals have closed in Tennessee in the last ear. Dozens more are struggling as health care, demographics and technology hange fundamentally altering how they provide care.

What change, acc ording to community and hospital leaders, is that the people who live and work in the ountryside need care. Without Insure Tennessee, rural hospitals will face severe financial challenges that could lead to more limited access to said William F. Carpenter, III, CEO of LifePoint Hospitals. The Franklin-based company owns rural and non- rban hospitals around the nation, including 10 hospital campuses in Tennessee. he defeat is gutting community and hospital leaders around the state.

extremely disappointed in our legislature and done pretending not. If they go ome without passing Insure Tennessee they should be voted out of said Dr. Mike chatzlein, chief executive officer of Saint Thomas Health. got the bad part but not the good part of Obamacare. We got the Medicare decreases but INSURE TENNESSEE Rural hospital leaders fear fate Holly Fletcher HOSPITALS, 13A TENNESSEE VOICES Lawmakers should stay until Insure Tennessee passes.

On 15A BY THE NUMBERS $2 billion Was spent on charity care in 2013 by Tennessee hospitals 15 counties Did not have hospitals in 2013. Maury Regional Health Care System serves about 250,000 residents from ix counties. It reports: percent of 65,644 emergency department visits were uninsured of 20,396 clinic visits ere uninsured TN-0001048937 STOCK MARKETS TAKE A POUNDING PAGE 1B.