Lincoln County's hospital gets a new CEO amid competing visions for the future

Lincoln County’s only hospital has a new CEO who starts this week. Russ Spray has managed other hospitals in southern Middle Tennessee, but now he’s tasked with turning around a facility on the Alabama border that has been bleeding millions of dollars a year. Tennessee has had more than its fair share of rural hospitals close in recent years, partly blamed on the state's refusal to expand Medicaid.