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Kimberly Frederickson, ProjX llc

Nashville’s Leadership Health Care (LHC) has named Kimberly Fredrickson of ProjX llc recipient of the Leadership Health Care Volunteer of the Year Award for 2007.

The Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes a member of LHC for outstanding service to the organization and for ongoing support of the group’s overall mission to foster the next generation of healthcare leaders.

Previous Volunteers of the Year include Johnny Harrison, administrative director of Rehab Services at Skyline Medical Center; Elizabeth Swarr, senior consultant at the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health; and Robert M. Coppedge, principal with New York-based Capitol Health.

“Leadership Health Care owes its success to the tremendous work of our member volunteers,” noted LHC executive director Caroline Young. “Kim is a truly deserving award recipient. Since LHC’s early beginnings, she has been an energetic supporter of the group’s efforts to foster leadership and to promote discussion about innovative ideas and trends in the healthcare industry.”

LHC was formed in 2002 in partnership with the Nashville Health Care Council (NHCC) to foster the next generation of healthcare leaders in Nashville by creating educational, networking and mentoring opportunities for the organization’s more than 430 members.

“Kim Fredrickson has been a tireless supporter of Leadership Health Care since the group’s beginnings,” said Young. “She exemplifies the type of exceptional talent we have here in Nashville among our young healthcare leaders, and she is well-deserving of this award.”

Fredrickson is a founding partner and CFO of ProjX, which provides comprehensive services in healthcare consulting such as strategic planning, operation flow analysis, comprehensive facility studies, demographic analysis and market research.

Prior to starting ProjX in 2006, Fredrickson was a founding partner and CFO for the CFP Group, LLC, an internationally recognized healthcare architectural firm headquartered in Nashville.

A holder of Series 7, 63, and 24 licenses, Frederickson has also served as personal financial advisor; CEO and founder of the Nutrition Factor, LLC, a home delivery dietary company; and CFO and founding member of Frontier Imaging, which manages imaging centers across the United States.

Since moving to Nashville in 1995, she has worked in various capacities with specialty hospitals, surgery centers and other healthcare-related building projects, serving as an owner’s advocate focusing on strategic planning to help clients determine what they need for their facilities, ensuring that they get the “biggest bang for their buck,” and helping differentiate between “niceties and realities” in the construction process.

ProjX is involved with the client during the whole construction process: identifying needs, helping select architects, set schedules, and avoid pitfalls. They also work with healthcare architects and contractors to identify the unique specifications required in building healthcare facilities, and incorporate and overlay their experience on their clients’ needs.

Frederickson said that her current position allows her to focus on strategic thinking and to bring her business skills to the table.

“In this company, I wear a lot of hats, overseeing bookkeeping, front end planning, people skills—and fill in where needed,” she said.

Frederickson has been involved with Leadership Health Care since its earliest days. She was part of group that recognized there were a number of people—“recent Owen graduates, newcomers to the area who had moved here in the healthcare industry”- who would be interested in being part of a group for future leaders.

“We really didn’t know where to start in actually forming a group,” she remembers, but four or five interested members “hatched a plan,” and called a meeting. The 30 to 40 people who came to the first Leadership Health Care meeting formed the nucleus of the board.

They began to develop programs that focused on an innovative educational process to learn about all aspects of the healthcare industry, networking with other people in the industry.

Fredrickson commented that the new group has always been appreciative of the guidance it received from the established NHCC and its leadership, which was accessible and helpful in designing networking events and participating in small roundtables for discussions on entrepreneurship and business development, and generating ideas and feedback.

“Leadership Health Care will always be its own entity,” she said, “but we’ll always work closely with NHCC. It’s a win-win situation.”

LHC’s recent trip to Wall Street was incredible, she remarked. “Coming from a financial background, it was an amazing experience to actually be on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and then to have a chance to meet people who are such forces in the financial world,” she said.

In addition to her involvement with LHC, where she continues as a member of the board, Fredrickson is active in the community, sitting on the boards of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and Bethany Christian Services, as well as volunteering for the Red Cross Disaster Action Team and at her church.



January 2008