W. Carl Whitmer

IASIS Healthcare LLC owns and operates acute care hospitals. It operates business through two segments: Acute Care and Health Choice. The Acute Care segment comprises of its hospitals, outpatient service facilities and physician clinics which offers a variety of medical and surgical services commonly available in hospitals, including emergency services, general surgery, internal medicine, cardiology, obstetrics, orthopaedics, psychiatry and physical rehabilitation. The Health Choice segment is a provider-owned, managed care organization and insurer. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

IASIS Capital Corp. operates general and acute-care hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. Its hospitals are located in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tampa-St. Petersburg and Texas. The company is headquartered in Franklin, TN.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

IASIS Healthcare Corp. owns and operates community-focused hospitals. The company was founded in September 1994 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Federation of American Hospitals operates as a representative and trade association for community hospitals and health systems. The private company is based in Washington. The American company was founded by Martin S. Rash. Charles N. Kahn has been the CEO of the company since 2001.

Fenwal, Inc. is a global medical technology company focused on improving transfusion medicine through expertise in blood separation, collection, filtration, storage, and transfusion. It offers apheresis collections, manual collections, therapeutics, specialty products, platelet safety, data management, data management, and customer solutions The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Lake Zurich, IL.

Part of Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Health Care Council operates as an association of health care industry leaders. The private company is based in Nashville, TN. The company was founded by Philip M. Hertik.

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce conducted extensive market research on the music industry, surveying over 2,500 people and conducting 3 focus groups. The 10-county Nashville economic market has a population of 1.9 million and is the largest metropolitan area within a five-state region. The non-profit company is based in Nashville, TN and has subsidiaries in the United States. The Chamber is a nonprofit business federation focused on facilitating community leadership to create economic prosperity. The region is known for its creativity, growth, and business opportunities, and is home to risk takers. The CEO of the company is Ralph Schulz.