NASHVILLE, TN – Today, Russell Street Ventures and Brad Smith announced the launch of Main Street
Health, a new company focused exclusively on delivering value-based healthcare in rural America. Main Street Health’s first offering is the Extra Access program, which will provide a range of enhanced healthcare services to seniors in rural America in partnership with rural primary care providers, urgent care clinics, and independent pharmacies.

Brentwood, Tenn., June 1, 2021 –– QHR Health, a leading shared service solutions provider for independent hospitals and health systems nationwide, announced it has been acquired by Grant Avenue Capital, LLC, a healthcare-focused private equity firm. QHR will now operate as an independent portfolio company of Grant Avenue Capital and is no longer a subsidiary of Quorum Health Corporation (QHC). Terms of the acquisition are undisclosed.

CHICAGO—Upfront Healthcare, a leading omnichannel communication and patient engagement platform, raised $11.5 million in a Series B funding round, led by new investor Baird Capital along with participation from their series A investors LRVHealth, Echo Health Ventures, Nashville Capital Network and Hyde Park Venture Partners. Upfront has received $21.5 million in financing to date.

Combining Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Market Leading Electronic Communications Archiving and Supervision

PORTLAND, Ore. & NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Smarsh®, enabling organizations to manage risk and uncover value within their electronic communications, announced the acquisition of Digital Reasoning, a global leader in natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), at the 2020 FINRA Artificial Intelligence Virtual Conference. The transaction brings together the leadership of Smarsh in digital communications content capture, archiving, supervision and e-discovery, with Digital Reasoning’s leadership in advanced AI/ML powered analytics. The combined company will enable customers to spot risks before they happen, maximize the scalability of supervision teams, and uncover strategic insights from large volumes of data in real-time.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Last week, the Nashville Health Care Council and Nashville Capital Network hosted “The Post-Election Dynamics of Capital and Health Care Ventures,” panel in which health care entrepreneurs, investors and advisors explored how the results of the 2020 election and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic could impact the landscape of health care capital and investments in the coming months.