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Community leaders urge Hospital Authority to keep CEO, fund new full-service Nashville General
Summary
Local physicians, clergy and elected leaders told the Hospital Authority board on Jan. 30 that Nashville General Hospital should remain a full-service acute hospital under current leadership and press ahead on plans for a new building to serve underserved patients.
At the Jan. 30 meeting of the Hospital Authority Board of Nashville and Davidson County, a string of physicians, clergy and elected officials urged the board to maintain Nashville General Hospital as a full-service hospital and to retain the current executive leadership while moving forward on a new facility.
Dr. Cenovis, identified in public comment as a general surgeon and chief of surgery at National General Hospital, praised the hospital’s recent quality gains and equipment upgrades and said they illustrate “the need for a new hospital.” Dr. Andrew Pierre, a foot-and-ankle surgeon and chair of the Middle Tennessee…
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