Health Care
Nashville is home to a diverse health care cluster with leaders in a number of industry niches that impact the health care landscape locally, nationally and internationally. More than 900 health care companies are located in the Nashville region, making health care the region's largest industry. Eighteen publicly traded health care companies call Nashville home, with combined employment of nearly 500,000 and $95 billion in global revenue. The health care industry is also the region's largest and fastest-growing employer, directly employing 167,916 locally. Download our health care target industry brochure.
Our move to Nashville in 2021 has helped shape the culture and energy of our company. Supporting the foundation of biotech and pharmaceutical industry growth in Middle Tennessee is exciting and important to Currax. This area of the country is unparalleled in its beauty and hospitality and is an ideal place to build a company and raise a family.
Nashville's Health Care Industry
- More than $1.6 billion in venture capital was invested in Nashville health care companies over the past 10 years.
- Ninety-five percent of Nashville Health Care Council CEOs indicate a Nashville headquarters location is important to their company's success.
- Nashville's is home to nearly 400 professional service firms that provide expertise in the health care industry.
- More than half of beds in for-profit hospitals are managed out of the Nashville region.
- Nashville's health care industry contributes an overall benefit of nearly $67 billion and 362,560 direct and indirect industry jobs to the local economy annually.
- The health care industry is Nashville's largest employer, contributing to 167,916 direct jobs annually.
- There are 18 publicly traded health care companies in the Nashville region.
Health Care Industry Workforce
SOURCE: EMSI, 2020
| OCCUPATION | NASHVILLE | # OF EMPLOYEES | AUSTIN | # OF EMPLOYEES | ATLANTA | # OF EMPLOYEES | CHARLOTTE | # OF EMPLOYEES | DENVER | # OF EMPLOYEES |
| Home health aides | $12.34 | 9,015 | $11.34 | 16,550 | $13.13 | 33,156 | $11.47 | 16,849 | $14.69 | 24,375 |
| Medical assistants | $17.06 | 5,480 | $17.63 | 5,153 | $17.25 | 15,996 | $17.17 | 5,525 | $19.28 | 6,506 |
| Receptionists | $15.01 | 6,862 | $14.80 | 6,933 | $15.15 | 16,142 | $15.26 | 11,323 | $17.05 | 9,581 |
| Registered nurses | $33.18 | 18,736 | $35.54 | 14,698 | $37.01 | 39,579 | $34.98 | 24,051 | $38.14 | 29,995 |
| Surgical technologists | $24.66 | 564 | $25.23 | 782 | $24.98 | 2,160 | $22.01 | 960 | $27.49 | 1,018 |
| OCCUPATION | NASHVILLE | # OF EMPLOYEES | INDIANAPOLIS | # OF EMPLOYEES | PHOENIX | # OF EMPLOYEES | RALEIGH | # OF EMPLOYEES | TAMPA | # OF EMPLOYEES |
| Home health aides | $12.34 | 9,015 | $12.20 | 16,340 | $13.46 | 62,008 | $11.55 | 8,127 | $11.93 | 18,166 |
| Medical assistants | $17.06 | 5,480 | $17.85 | 5,850 | $17.41 | 14,884 | $17.06 | 2,631 | $16.12 | 8,852 |
| Receptionists | $15.01 | 6,862 | $15.41 | 5,356 | $16.08 | 15,021 | $15.57 | 5,700 | $14.51 | 10,496 |
| Registered nurses | $33.18 | 18,736 | $34.11 | 26,367 | $39.13 | 38,933 | $33.70 | 11,724 | $34.26 | 29,567 |
| Surgical technologists | $24.66 | 564 | $24.02 | 984 | $25.72 | 1,620 | $23.69 | 399 | $23.78 | 1,406 |
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For more information about the Nashville Health Care Council, please visit healthcarecouncil.com.