More than 100,000 people lived on the east side of the Cumberland River in 1959, across communities interspersed with farmland stretching from Inglewood to Madison, Goodlettsville, and out to Donelson. That number represented a full quarter of the Nashville area's population, yet very little was available in the way of health care. A new hospital, according to Board members and a growing contingent of opinion leaders, would address that medical service...