Nashville Health Care Council

Overview

Calendar of Events

International Activities

NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

LEADERSHIP HEALTH CARE

OVERVIEW

The Council's educational activities provide health care executives with information to help them make better business decisions, and offer networking and mentoring opportunities. Among the Council's major educational activities are:

Briefings with Key Policy and Business Leaders: The Council hosts private briefings and other meetings that provide members with access to key policymakers and business leaders, including:

Former Pfizer Chairman & CEO Dr. Hank McKinnell
U.S. Representative Bill Thomas, Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee
UnitedHealth Group CEO Bill McGuire
Merck Chairman and CEO Ray Gilmartin
Former HCFA Administrator Nancy-Ann DeParle
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives
U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-SD), member of the Senate Budget Committee & Senate Finance Committee
Dr. Mark Miller, ED, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPac)

Entrepreneurial Workshops: The Council launched the "Garage to Wall Street" series to focus on major challenges facing entrepreneurs. The series has included workshops on venture capital funding, M&A strategies, and Wall Street's view of the industry. Additionally, the Council has organized issue specific seminars on biotechnology, health information technology, HIPAA, and other topics.

"Many of these people might have come to HCA or Healthtrust to make a business call, but by the time the Health Care Council had been in place two or three years it had helped to develop a national presence for the community, and it became a magnet for us to attract some of the top leaders in health care and government to come speak to the membership,”

Tommy Frist, Jr., M.D. Chairman, 2002-2003