Community Health Systems to open new office in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Franklin-based Community Health Systems is bringing back-office jobs from across the country to a new Nashville office.
The health care giant announced Thursday that it will build a 240,000-square-foot office in the south Nashville neighborhood of Antioch. More than 2,000 jobs will move to Davidson County.
The firm had considered building in neighboring Williamson County, where its corporate headquarters is located. Franklin Republican state Rep. Jeremy Durham said Thursday he believes the decision to locate in Nashville instead was retribution for Williamson County lawmakers’ opposition to Insure Tennessee.
Community Health Systems Chairman and CEO Wayne Smith said he met with many lawmakers to ask them to support expanded Medicaid but the decision to move to Davidson County was “based on business, nothing else, not politics.”
