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The Nashville Healthcare Council recently featured Vanderbilt University Medical Center Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer Dr. Wright Pinson in the latest installment of “Health Care Brass Tacks.” This virtual series invites Council board members and C-suite health care leaders to discuss their unique perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic and its overall impact on…

Recently the Nashville Health Care Council hosted a virtual listening session with Duane Reynolds, founder and CEO of Just Health Collective, on terminology necessary to navigate impactful discussions about race. Reynolds spoke with Council President Hayley Hovious about the meaning behind words, systemic racism, and what we can do about it. A video of the…

The Nashville Health Care Council announces the appointment of its 2020–2021 board of directors. Robert A. Frist Jr., chairman and CEO, HealthStream, continues a two-year term as chairman of the board. David Dill, president and CEO, LifePoint Health, will assume the role of vice chair. “The health care industry is actively tackling new and historic challenges at this time. I welcome each and every new…

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, announces the appointment of its 2020–2021 board of directors, effective as of July 1, 2020. Jordan Kendig, director, leadership and organizational development, HCA Healthcare, has been named board chair, and, Andrea Cleeton, vice president, operations improvement, LifePoint Health, will serve as board vice…

Last week the Nashville Healthcare Council featured LifePoint Health President and CEO David Dill in the latest installment of “Health Care Brass Tacks,” a virtual series in which Council board members and C-suite health care leaders discuss their unique perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic and its overall impact on the health care industry. Dill spoke…

Last week the Nashville Healthcare Council hosted the virtual discussion, “View from a Pandemic: The Road to Economic Recovery,” for more than 130 Council members. Dr. Larry Van Horn, Vanderbilt University’s associate professor of management and executive director of health affairs, and Dr. Arthur Laffer, economist and author, discussed the state of the health care…

Last week the Nashville Health Care Council hosted a virtual listening session with Brad Smith, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), for more than 263 Council members. Smith — formerly the chief operating officer of Anthem’s diversified business group;…

  Nashville Health Care Council members,   Over the past weeks, the Nashville health care community has been moved by the anguish experienced in communities around the country and the unjust death of George Floyd by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department. Our country is at a crux between racial, economic, and public health tensions…