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Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, announces the appointment of its 2019–2020 board of directors, effective as of July 1, 2019. Jessica Wells, assistant vice president, education and research, Graduate Medical Education, HCA Healthcare, has been named board chairwoman, and Jordan Kendig, program director, patient experience, HCA Healthcare, will…

The Nashville Health Care Council announces the appointment of its 2019–2020 board of directors. Robert A. Frist Jr., co-founder, CEO, president and chairman, HealthStream, begins a two-year term as chairman of the board. Chris Holden, President and CEO, Envision Healthcare, begins the first year of his two-year term as vice chairman of the board. “The…

The Nashville Health Care Council is proud to announce the commencement of the 2019 Class of Health Care Council Fellows. After seven full-day sessions and two retreats, these top leaders deepened their perspectives on the challenges facing the U.S. health care system, connected with other forward-thinking innovators and gained the insights needed to shape the…

Last week, the Nashville Health Care Council hosted an informative panel discussion on private equity investment within the health care industry. Panelists included Jeffrey R. Crisan, Managing Partner, Silversmith Capital Partners; Nancy-Ann DeParle, Partner, Consonance Capital; Justin Ishbia, Managing Partner, Shore Capital; and Casey West, Managing Partner, SSM Partners. Tom Wylly, Senior Partner at Brentwood…

The Nashville Health Care Council hosted Aneesh Chopra, president of CareJourney and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States, last week for an in-depth conversation about the future of open data sharing and the range of its possible uses within health care. The discussion was moderated by former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,…

Written by Chris Nichols, Client Solutions Manager at endevis Recruiting | Retention and member of the LHC Marketing and Communications Cohort On April 17th, Lucinda “Cindy” Baier, President, CEO and Director of Nashville’s 6th largest publicly traded company Brookdale Senior Living, joined Leadership Health Care for an Executive Briefing.  Before becoming CEO of the largest…

Last Friday, the Nashville Health Care Council hosted Toby Cosgrove, M.D., executive adviser to Google Cloud’s Health Care and Life Sciences Team, and executive adviser and former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, for a lively discussion that covered a wide range of topics, from innovation and technology to patient experience and leadership in health…

Written by Lauren Farley, Business Development Coordinator at PYA and member of the LHC Marketing and Communications Cohort Recently, members of Leadership Healthcare (LHC) attended a lunch and learn with Dr. Stephen Loyd, the Medical Director of JourneyPure’s services in Middle Tennessee. The discussion, moderated by Justin Lanning, CEO of 180 Health Partners, began with…