With 900 medical companies based in Nashville, Music City has become one of the nation's leading centers in the healthcare industry.
Appl Childs Potter, chairman of the Nashville Healthcare Council, says the area is aiming to attract more healthcare companies into the area. Oracle recently announced plans to move its global headquarters to Nashville.
In an interview with Chief Healthcare Executive®, Childs-Potter outlines plans to make Nashville a bigger player in the industry. She also offers an interesting perspective on how the city has succeeded in attracting and cultivating healthcare companies.
Secret Source
“Our secret source is this level of collaboration and it's just really built into Nashville's DNA,” she says.
“From our history and music, these kinds of ideas from people come together from different backgrounds with different experiences, and I think they're working together to create something new. And It's really like the spirit of this business community.
“We like to say, everyone is going to meet you for the first time. You need to win the second one. But regardless of who it is in the community, people are really happy. You're willing to go back and join a meeting to hear about the people you know in your business, your mentors, your business.”
Local expertise
Nashville has 500 healthcare companies that directly serve patients and another 400 that support them.
“The Nashville service provider industry supporting healthcare has grown up in the industry, meaning that these large publicly-publicly-public companies are growing, so we can make our local law firms, local accounting firms and local accounting firms and locals. And through that effort, you have really specialized expertise in the service industry here. So, if you buy a hospital anywhere in the US, then your lawyer will be Nashville It's very likely that you're sitting in or trained or connected to Nashville.”
Being intentional
“I think the idea of growing the economy very intentionally and really focusing on healthcare as an industry is really unique. And our executives are really intentional with time and effort. I think there are. When there are networking events and you host things, people say they are talking about the healthcare industry. They're not talking about sports. They're what's going on in the world. They're not talking about. They're really talking about how we move forward with healthcare. And the energy created here, and the willingness to really talk about these things, is something that people can say. I think it's attractive. They want to be here, they want to be part of it. They want to be connected to it. And our job is to continue to nurture it. .”
