Ballad Health CEO: Last round of Unicoi County Hospital rescues underway, building likely lost

[@sandbridgekid4121]

Why is there a rural hospital built on a known flood plain. This doesn't make sense.

[@LeannePlah-kv7kt]

Brand new hospital . The dam failed not their fault .

[@DodongoManoof]

@@LeannePlah-kv7kt Everything will flood in due time from climate change and this isn't even hyperbolic

[@dcstlr]

No dam.​@@LeannePlah-kv7kt

[@sandbridgekid4121]

@@LeannePlah-kv7kt Do not build high value infrastructure downstream from a damn in a flood plain. Entirely hospital owners fault.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@LeannePlah-kv7kt Why would you build in a flood plain outside of ignorance or idiocy?

[@johnuhelski8613]

Got the land cheap , built it in a flood plain , brilliant move .....

[@LS-ek1fd]

That type of flooding plus two dam failures has never happened.

[@TheMookie1590]

@@LS-ek1fd it happens all the time. stuff happening isnt defined by your life span

[@kattmilk]

Insane! Prayers from Florida! 🙏🏾 🌀 🤯

[@johnbravo2301]

For those posting questions ,, about why 3rd paragraph most important First Street™ has no recreated models of major flooding events near Unicoi County, TN but that doesn’t mean this area has never flooded in the past, Deeper floods from major events like hurricanes are less likely to occur but affect more properties than more shallow flood events, like heavy rains. As Unicoi County feels the effects of a changing environment, however, events of all kinds will affect more properties within the community. If a low-likelihood storm resulting in severe flooding (a 1-in-100 year flood event), occurred today, it could affect 3,641 properties in Unicoi County. This type of event has a 26% chance of occurring at least once over the life of a 30 year mortgage. 30 years from now, an event of this same likelihood would affect 3,649 properties due to a changing environment. The Building site has a 0.2 % chance of flooding according to FEMA and engineers ... Don't bash me for researching the info ,,, I didnt write the reports or make the flood map Me : CV , insurance examiner, ppty adjuster , fraud investigator , and NFIP Flood adjuster

[@bjbrtn5644]

Actually, my first thought was about the logistics of getting all the patients, many not ambulatory, up onto a roof. Though your information is interesting, thank you.

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

@@bjbrtn5644 I've seen hospital staff do amazing things.

[@chairmanofthebored8684]

@@bjbrtn5644 All hospitals have helicopter landing pads on their roof and are accessed via elevators and stairs.

[@rickybungalow8839]

Good info. Just because it happened doesn’t mean it was likely or in a flood plane

[@WesB1972]

Kudos to the Virginia State Police for the help with your helicopters. Thanks from a Tennessee citizen.

[@sandbridgekid4121]

The EMT vehicles should have been moved before floodgates hit building.

[@edie9257]

Prayers from KY that everyone is safe

[@beet5800]

Hospital staff are simply put, ANGELS on earth! No matter what, they continue to priorize the well-being of their patients. Heroes! One and all! 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@brendavalentine-bates7737]

Thank you God for sparing everyone 🙏

[@glennagoss7335]

Prayers for All.

[@etphonehome1111]

Who builds a hospital on a river floodplain that has no upstream dam control? Ballad health of course.

[@JoeandAngie]

Let's never dam the Chucky.

[@etphonehome1111]

Amen to that! But don't be surprised if Mr Levine is trying to do this using this disaster as his reason for it. He's totally corrupt

[@BoneTime]

Who TF built a Hospital in the middle of a flood plain. Somebody filled their pockets. Ask that question.

[@JoeandAngie]

Alan Levine

[@NCCountryBoy]

Hands down that's a damn good pilot to land a large bird like that in what I can only imagine is tight quarters, thats why the US military is the best in the world.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

Agree💯

[@jactoolcool8285]

it was police

[@NCCountryBoy]

@@jactoolcool8285 I'm sure he was x military

[@raymondvia3786]

Used to work in a hospital close to a river in Virginia. We got flooded in 1985

[@darylb5564]

Alan needs to be very fired.

[@GeneceMccallie]

Prayers for all Other States probably didn't even see or understand this type of devastation this could cause Valdosta Georgia got hit hard Lost of lives prayers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@birish1010]

Ballad needs to answer why they weren’t evacuated earlier. All Ballad cares about is money and saving face.

[@windycityliz7711]

Watch the video.

[@birish1010]

@@windycityliz7711 I did watch the video and that was the most corporate BS answer. You built the hospital in a floodplain. You should have a plan in place that would have had those people evacuated hours before before it reached the hospital doors.

[@windycityliz7711]

@@birish1010 He answered your question about evacuation. This is happening in FOUR states - historical flooding. But only here is it because of greed? Get some perspective.

[@margaretgood2111]

We should have never let you in our Region !!!!!

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

Another Monday Morning Quarterback heard from.

[@silentowlscribe]

You never build a building on a side of a mountain, in a river basin, or build a city below sea level 😔

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

I'm sure the townspeople in Imperial county California are worried about being below sea level when they are 3-figures miles from the ocean. New Orleans, on the other hand...

[@LeTrashPanda]

Cue "Inconvenient Truth" via Al Gore.

[@StephanieGreyBeHealthy]

Good collaboration, and hope all is well.

[@LegoFlipC]

How is it they weren’t warned in time? This is RIDICULOUS.

[@graceburrell8800]

That area has always been called SANDY BOTTOM. FOR A GOOD REASON. BUILD ON ROCK NOT SAND!

[@piccalillipit9211]

Build your hospital on Rocky Hill

[@IAmMajor101]

The Cherokee named it 'Dangerous Waters' for a reason...hope I don't need to go to the hospital any time soon...🙃

[@LeTrashPanda]

Aho.

[@joshuaqueener1396]

"Complete write off"..always money above people. Ballad will probably cash in the insurance check and never come back

[@cexspiravit4328]

you have NO idea how corrupt A. Levine is

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

And, you know this... how? And, to my unsophisticated ear, he sounded like he cared about the people plenty.

[@joshuaqueener1396]

3:14 ​​@@The-Friendly-GrizzlyBased on their past actions and the wreck they have made of health care in East TN plus who the hell says "write off " when something they care about is destroyed?

[@The-Friendly-Grizzly]

@@joshuaqueener1396 Write off was my phrasing. I believe he said total loss. Yes, Ballad is awful. Despite that, the doctors under their umbrella saved my life twice in three years so, while others have complaints, VALID complaints, I am running a good average so far.

[@poppysleach]

​@@The-Friendly-Grizzlybecause write off sounds like a financial concern. Total loss is what you say when something is unrepairable or unrecoverable. I see the pattern all too often in our health system. Feel free to go watch my interview with WCYB about when I lost my wife because of inadequate coverage and service at one of BHs flagship hospitals (Bristol)!

[@jackieo8693]

Why did they build a hospital in a river?

[@LeannePlah-kv7kt]

Can't build on the side of a mountain ! If you see their topography or been in the area you would see why. The dam failed way up stream it's not their fault

[@jackieo8693]

@@LeannePlah-kv7kt I didn't hear anything about the dam failing.

[@graceburrell8800]

​@@jackieo8693 ther Is NO DAM. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN CALLED SANDY BOTTOM. A FLOOD PLAIN.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@graceburrell8800 Calm down Grace.

[@TreeLBollingTreeMan]

@@RT-qd8yl I feel grace anger, dang stupid people that don't know a dang thing about our area trying to sound like know it alls

[@Queencreole504]

Woah God bless them.

[@kevinsmith5329]

Who in their right mind builds a hospital next to a river or creek? When is America going to wise up?

[@nomenclature9373]

Build hospital in a floodplain, brilliant.

[@luv2luv720]

I would like to see footage from the day of the disaster. I'm assuming it was nonstop coverage of the flooding.

[@patriciaspeicher6883]

GO TENNESSEE! THAT MY HOME STATE!

[@pudintain9656]

Watch them rebuild this hospital in the same place.

[@petuniafred]

This is why you should research where you work and where you seek your care

[@petuniafred]

What state is this?

[@TakinErEasyHere]

We build on flood plains, on cement slabs, all over this country, with crumbling infrastructure on top of it all. This shouldn't happen in this country. The trillions sent overseas could prevent all of this. We could have infrastructure to prevent all of this.

[@markrobinowitz8473]

Erwin is home to a nuclear Navy fuel center designed to power nuclear war.

[@keithjohnson7613]

CEO is on dry ground… Why would his hospital not be on dry ground ?

[@christinaw9807]

The old hospital is literally right across the street from the high school.

[@keithjohnson7613]

@@christinaw9807 so the high school is where it is safe ?

[@LeannePlah-kv7kt]

Yall will rebuild and be better than ever 😢praying for everybody 🙏 safety for all

[@IIISentorIII]

I'm sure those monkeys built the new hospital in the same place. You don't need Black Hawk helicopters and rescue personnel to risk their lives. You just have to use common sense and avoid it altogether. Cheers from Switzerland

[@cococonlin170]

How are insurance companies going to make a profit?

[@JoeandAngie]

Alan Levine is a terrible CEO. Liked by no one.

[@barbarashirland9078]

I like the CEO's attitude. He seems to really care about his staff and patients.

[@JoeandAngie]

He's is an horrific CEO despised by all. Money-grubbing liar and sell-out.

[@comeLetusAdoreHim]

Amen to what He said that it’s just a building and thankful to God that everyone is safe..

[@IIISentorIII]

😂

[@donnawofford64]

God said there would be Great Floods

[@hearmeout1966]

There’s not much available land to build such a facility in Unicoi County. Thank God no one lost their lives but hate the hospital is probably gone.

[@frankwenos641]

Not knowing they built a hospital in the middle of a river. They did not check the valleys.

[@KristenAlexander11]

Project 2025 would cut the fema budget and have limited responses to state emergencies. It also eliminates the national weather service.

[@JoeandAngie]

The Project 2025 is not real...was formulated by anti-repub Heritage. Trump has dis-avowed ad nauseum. Do your resesrch!! It's Agenda 47.

[@jeremiahservin-farnham-ul6gb]

You sound like a Kamala Harris voter 2025 is a bullshit project. OK it’s designed to scare you think for yourself people pull your heads out of your butts. Trumps economy was the best economy we’ve had in years Biden Harris ruined it. They keep saying the colony with 9% inflation. It was 1.4 think about that they are

[@jeremiahservin-farnham-ul6gb]

I bet he has flood insurance on the hospital

[@jeremiahservin-farnham-ul6gb]

I bet he has flood insurance on the hospital yes put the building in a different location, not a floodplain

[@WesB1972]

That is not a Black Hawk helicopter.

[@tascrphs]

I'm not a climate change guy, after all I'm in the gold mining business, but good God. The tremendous warm oceans are wreaking HAVOC across this country. When some of the most mountainous areas of Appalachia is under a flood emergency it's time to rethink what climate deniers are telling us or WHY they don't want us to consider arguments from the other side.

[@signalfire6]

The 'hippies' were screaming about this back in the 60s and 70s and the 'conservatives' made fun of them. NOW WILL YOU LISTEN?

[@Stupidityindex]

You're not a climate change guy & it only takes a glance at the arctic sea ice extent record; to know how completely hopeless it is to do anything at scale now. Humans will be extinct within a decade.

[@5353Jumper]

Have you ever noticed that nearly all right wing media is sponsored by oil money?

[@JoeandAngie]

Look at the LOW # of hurricanes over the last decade. It's the opposite what "they" tried to fesr-monger with.

[@wandamartinez1561]

Praise the Lord!

[@unclejack101]

Looks like the guy from heavy d rescue off KZbin that walks by at 4:13

[@bjbrtn5644]

Know who you mean. His beard is black and shorter and very well groomed. Guy in video has long brown beard and not shaped like Heavy D Sparks.

[@christinaw9807]

Unicoi high school. Right across from the old hospital. 🤔

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[@tomarmadiyer2698]

Is this the ballad ceo that did the chest incision thingy?

[@poppysleach]

No. That person was a hospital CEO (not health system) and was terminated or allowed to resign.

[@KimberliCoufal-r4o]

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[@odeszarules5125]

Weather modification at its finest. Put these criminals in jail immediately. STOP SPRAYING OUR SKIES!!!!!

[@JoeandAngie]

Tennessee outlawed chem trails within the year...I rarely , if ever, see those abominations anymore. Super blue and clear skies here in E TN.

[@KathyLaGasse-h8s]

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[@KathyLaGasse-h8s]

​@@JoeandAngie😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@markrobinowitz8473]

The actual modification is caused by burning fossil fuels, cutting forests, paving farmland. Not your delusions.

[@AlisonHoward4ye]

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[@MacDonaldElaine-v2q]

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[@EattheApple666]

Scientists starting telling us in the 1950s this was where we were going if we didn't change.

[@JoeandAngie]

Lol. And every prediction has failed. Do your resesrch, o' gullible one.

[@ARichardP]

Research! What research?

[@markrobinowitz8473]

@@JoeandAngie Doubtful you know how to do "research" other than reading bogus websites. Denial is not a river in Tennessee.

[@PacoOtis]

Thankful to god? What a crock of horseshit!

[@MikeJohnson-nj1ry]

I fail to see a correlation between thoughts and prayers and salvation from floods, wildfires and record temperatures.

[@MacDonaldElaine-v2q]

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