The Nashville Health Care Council recently announced the appointment of its 2017-2018 board of directors. C. Wright Pinson, MD, CEO, Vanderbilt Health System, will continue to serve as chairman of the board for the second year of his two-year term. R. Milton Johnson, chairman and CEO, HCA, begins the second year of his two-year term as vice chairman of the board.
New members appointed to the 2017-2018 Council board of directors include:
- Molly Cate, partner, Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock
- Michael S. Cole, managing director, Alvarez & Marsal
- Thomas Cooper, general manager, Gulf Coast/Tennessee Region, GE Healthcare
- William Crawford, executive vice president and head of Health Care Banking, Cadence Bank
- Stephen F. Flatt, president and CEO, National HealthCare Corporation
- Robert A. Frist Jr., co-founder, CEO, president and chairman, HealthStream
- Claire Cowart Haltom, shareholder, Baker Donelson
- Melissa Hendricks, vice president of Marketing Strategy, Cerner Corporation
- James Hiatt, associate vice president for Academic Programs and dean of the Skinner School of Business, Trevecca Nazarene University
- Angela Humphreys, member, Bass, Berry & Sims
- A.J. Kazimi, chairman and CEO, Cumberland Pharmaceuticals
- Eb LeMaster, managing director, Ponder & Co.
- Terriance Moody, CEO, Dream Systems
- Martin S. Rash, chairman and CEO, RCCH HealthCare Partners
- Todd Robinson, executive vice president/principal, ESa
- Saurabh Sinha, co-founder, president and CEO, emids Technologies
- Karen Springer, president and CEO, Saint Thomas Health
Council board members continuing to serve for 2017-2018 include:
- Wright Pinson, MD, CEO, Vanderbilt Health System (Chairman)
- Milton Johnson, chairman and CEO, HCA (Vice Chairman)
- Neil de Crescenzo, president and CEO, Change Healthcare
- William Gracey, former President and CEO, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (Immediate Past Chairman)
- Samuel N. Hazen, COO, HCA
- Christopher A. Holden, president and CEO, Envision Healthcare
- Joey A. Jacobs, chairman and CEO, Acadia Healthcare
- Debbie James, president and CEO, Vivere
- Rita Johnson-Mills, president and CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Tennessee
- Lynn Massingale, MD, executive chairman, TEAMHealth
- Andrew Smith, president and CEO, Brookdale Senior Living
- Wayne T. Smith, chairman and CEO, Community Health Systems
- Carl Whitmer, president and CEO, IASIS Healthcare
