March 21 - 24, 2011, Nashville, TN
Contact: New York Foreign Press Center Media Relations Officer Melissa Waheibi
Telephone: 646-282-2835; email: waheibimn@state.gov
The tour focused on several growing industries of healthcare and music. Media visited music studios, forensic chemical laboratories and drug-testing facility specializing in Zero-Tolerance Drug Testing. The group also visited the Metro Nashville Emergency Communications Center where the director talked about how the area dealt with a "Thousand-year-flood" in May 2010. Interviews included Nashville's Mayor, industry leaders, and marilyn Tavenner, principal deputy administrator and COO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
