Belmont University announced Friday its 2022 class of Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame inductees. 

Shares of locally based Community Health Systems were trading down nearly 50 percent after hours following the release Wednesday of the hospital company’s second quarter earnings report.

The Tennessee Hospital Association has named Lacey Blair vice president of state government affairs, effective Aug. 1.

HCA Healthcare has released its second quarter earnings results, which surpassed Wall Street expectations but did not reach the Zacks Investment Research estimate of $14.87 billion in revenue. 

Compassus, a Brentwood-based national provider of home-based care services including home health, infusion therapy, palliative and hospice care, has named Kathy Winn as senior vice president and chief marketing officer, per a release. 

HCA Healthcare and the McKesson Corporation are forming a joint venture between their respective oncology research arms Sarah Cannon Research Institute and US Oncology Research. 

The Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee (BJIT) held a ribbon cutting ceremony for their Brentwood location on Wednesday.

Brentwood-based health care analytics company Trilliant Health is suing San Diego-based spinal care company NuVasive over alleged breach of contract.  

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a legal challenge to block Nashville-based HCA Healthcare’s proposed acquisition of five Utah hospitals from Dallas-based Steward Health Care. 

Brentwood healthcare tech firm Virsys12 is still capitalizing on its corporate growth momentum with another leadership addition.

Franklin-based Summit BHC, a behavioral health and addiction treatment manager, has named Clay Phillips as its senior vice president of strategy and managed care. 

Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee continues to expand its services to meet the growing needs of the regions with the additions of Justin Brothers, physical therapist, and Jeff Gandy, occupational therapist.  

Studio Bank says it is bringing its "unique blend of personal service and sophisticated technology" to Williamson County with a corporate office and retail branch in Franklin slated for an opening between June and July of this year, per a release. 

Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR has announced that it made a majority investment in Brentwood-based pathology company PathGroup.

Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee has welcomed two new physician assistants, Doug Eastham and Hayley Mowery, to its growing list of health care providers.    

U.S. News & World Report has recognized Heritage at Brentwood among its 2022-23 Best Senior Living Communities in the independent living category.

Community health workers are seeing an influx of visibility and support through federal, state and local funding. 

Thomas Frist Jr. does not seem to have lost faith in the company he co-founded in 1968.

Alyson Poling Fitness will soon launch a new brand concentrated on the wellness spectrum as of Sunday, May 8.

Quorum Health has appointed Stuart McLean its new interim CEO. The Brentwood-based acute care hospital operator’s current CEO, Dan Slipkovich, is leaving the role for retirement, according to a press release. 

Two area hospital companies saw a significant increase in labor costs, a hit in profits and a drop in stock prices surrounding their first quarter results. Health care workforce recruitment and retention were themes in both HCA Healthcare’s and Community Health Systems’ recent first quarter …

The number of people with end-stage kidney disease has gone up 42 percent from 2000 to 2019, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means at least 760,000 people are in need of dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. 

Apryl Childs-Potter has been named president of the Nashville Health Care Council. 

As a $2 billion sale of Franklin-based wellness company Tivity looms, Tommy Lewis is busy.

Two resolutions calling for HCA to have more transparency in political spending failed to pass during the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting on Thursday — with the company's stock dropping significantly as Friday's trading session drew to a close.

Brentwood-based life science distribution company Cryoport has acquired France-based Cell&Co BioServices, according to a press release. 

On Tuesday, the White House launched the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, a new center under the umbrella of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — likened to a National Weather Service for infectious diseases.

A study comparing military veterans who deployed to a combat zone after 9/11 and health care workers working during the COVID-19 pandemic found similar levels of potential moral injury (PMI), with 46.1 percent of veterans and 50.7 percent of health care workers reporting PMI. 

A British laboratory informatics agency announced last week that it has acquired ApolloLIMS.

Brentwood-based health care company LifePoint Health has named Tizgel High as its chief compliance officer. 

Franklin-based Tivity Health has agreed to be bought and taken private by Connecticut-based investment firm Stone Point Capital for $2 billion, according to a release. 

Franklin-based behavioral health company Acadia Healthcare named Christopher Hunter as its new CEO on Friday. 

Brentwood-based acute care hospital operator Quorum Health named Chris Harrison its new chief financial officer on Tuesday. Harrison joined the company in 2020 as senior vice president of financial planning and analysis. 

Prior to COVID-19, Brentwood-based health care technology company Virsys12 boasted annual revenue growth between 25- and 100-percent since its founding in 2011.

Summit BHC announced Monday it named Acadia Healthcare’s Dwight A. Lacy as its new chief operating officer.

As of Thursday, March 17, a D.C. federal judge set a trial date for the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge against Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group’s merger with Change Healthcare.

The two newest executives make five C-suite roster changes in two months.

Shareholders of HCA Healthcare, the Nashville-based for-profit operator of health care facilities, are asking for more transparency regarding the company’s political spending and lobbying, though board members are opposed to the move.