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Belmont University has announced the 2024 Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame inductee class who will be celebrated at a breakfast event on October 15 at Belmont’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.   

With a mission to honor those who have made significant and lasting contributions to the health and health care industries, the Hall of Fame was created 10 years ago by Belmont University, the McWhorter Society, and the Nashville Health Care Council, a founding partner. Since its inception in 2015, the Hall of Fame has inducted more than 50 health care leaders.   

One of the inductees is Stan Edmunde Brock, Founder and President of Remote Area Medical. Headquartered in Rockford, the organization has provided more than $200 million in free healthcare services to more than 950,000 patients from Alaska to Vermont. It was also instrumental in the Tennessee Volunteer Medical Services Act of 1995 passage, allowing health care professionals to cross state lines to provide free care. Brock died nearly six years ago.

Others being honored include:

• Walter Hughes, a pioneer in pediatric infectious diseases research and treatment and founding Chair of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Department of Infectious Diseases;
• R. Milton Johnson, former Chief Executive Officer and Chair of HCA Healthcare where he worked for 37 years and led the company through significant growth and steady advancement in its clinical agenda including the company’s recognition as one of the world’s most ethical companies for multiple consecutive years during Johnson’s tenure; and
• C. Wright Pinson, a pioneering liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon who initiated three liver transplant programs in the Pacific Northwest and Tennessee and directed the Vanderbilt Transplant Center for 18 years.

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