Emme Nelson Baxter, former business editor for The Tennessean in Nashville, has joined healthcare specialist Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hanock in Nashville as a VP.

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Baxter moved into PR with hospital giant HCA as director of corporate communications and recently ran her own shop, Nelson Baxter Communications, for the past two years.

Earlier, she was a reporter and copy editor for USA Today, a sister Gannett paper to The Tennessean and started out in the public affairs office of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.