Nashville Really Is a Health Care Mecca

Nashville Really Is a Health Care Mecca

The health care industry deepened its roots in the Nashville area as well as its national reach since 2010.

Health care contributed $38.8 billion to the regional economy in 2014, up more than $8 billion since a similar study five years ago, according to a study by the Nashville Health Care Council and the Business and Economic Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University.

There are 249,345 people employed in the industry in 2014, up by nearly 50,000 from the 2010 report. The study looked at Davidson County as well as Cannon, Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Macon, Maury, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Wilson and Williamson counties.

The industry is an economic engine for the midstate.

Health care is the linchpin in the middle Tennessee economy, said Nashville Mayor Karl Dean on Tuesday.

There are nearly 400 health care companies with operations in the Nashville area while with another 400 professional service firms supporting those companies, according to the Nashville Health Care Council.

The report estimates that in 2014, the industry generated $21.03 billion in personal income in the local economy. For every $100 of personal income there is an estimated $34 generated in the local economy from spending. (continue reading at the Tennessean)

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