Briefly: McWhorter launches another Health advocate

By Milt Capps


Briefly: McWhorter launches another Health advocate | Clayton McWhorter, Tom Scully, Rolling Hills Group, ShoutAmerica, healthcare reform

Clayton McWhorter

Clayton McWhorter, who founded VC Clayton Associates and built his reputation across decades at or near the top of HCA, and who not long ago launched ShoutAmerica to mobilize Americans for health reform, has now created the Rolling Hills Group, to address similar goals. 

With McWhorter as chairman, and former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Tom Scully (an Alston & Bird lawyer, at left) as senior advisor,  the new group includes many Nashvillians:

Craig Becker President Tennessee Hospital Association
James Brexler President & CEO Erlanger Health System
Marlin Chapman Director of Compensation, Benefits, HR Analytics Nissan North America
Reginald Coopwood, MD CEO  Nashville General Hospital
Marilyn Dubree Chief Nursing Officer Vanderbilt University Medical Center Corporation
Dan Elrod Attorney at Law Miller & Martin
Robert Gordon Exec. V.P. and Chief Administrative Officer Baptist Memorial Healthcare 
William Gracey Executive Vice President LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.
Aubrey Harwell  Attorney at Law Neal & Harwell, PLC
Tom Kinser Retired Chair & CEO BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Lawrence Kloess President-TriStar Division HCA
Kevin Lavender Sr. Vice President Fifth Third Bank
Lynn Massingale, MD Executive Chairman TeamHealth
Chuck Whitfield President & CEO Laughlin Memorial Hospital