Editing Bill Frist (section)

==Post-Senate career==
===Political involvement===
Frist was mentioned as a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate and as a potential 2010 Republican candidate for [[Governor of Tennessee]]. Ultimately, he did not run for either office.<ref name="autogenerated1">[https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/11/29/frist-decides-against-%e2%80%9908-presidential-bid/ "Frist Decides Against '08 Presidential Bid"], ''The Wall Street Journal'', November 29, 2006.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/011707/frist.html|title=Frist Looking at Governor Run in 2010|first=Sam|last=Youngman|work=The Hill|date=January 18, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210071025/http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/011707/frist.html|archive-date=February 10, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17041.html|title=Frist out of 2010 race|website=POLITICO|date=January 4, 2009 }}</ref>

In 2009, Frist stated that he would have broken with his party by voting in favor of the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]], which was unanimously opposed by Republicans.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://swampland.time.com/2009/10/02/bill-frist-on-health-bill-id-vote-for-it/|title=Bill Frist on Health Bill: I'd Vote For It|first=Karen|last=Tumulty|magazine=Time|date=October 2, 2009|access-date=January 21, 2012}}</ref> In January 2011, after the Republicans regained a majority in the [[United States House of Representatives|House]], Frist called on them not to attempt to repeal the health care law.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/bill-frist-health-care-repeal-gop_n_810345.html | work=Huffington Post | first=Sam | last=Stein | title=Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land', GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It | date=January 18, 2011}}</ref>

===Business career===
In 2008, he became a partner in Chicago-based Cressey & Co., investing in the nation's health care market. Today, he serves as special partner and chairman of the Executives Council at Cressey.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cresseyco.com/team/bill-frist | title=Senator Bill Frist &#124; Cressey & Company }}</ref>

In 2013, Frist partnered with Brad Smith to start Aspire Health, which grew to be the largest non-hospice community-based palliative care company in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2017/05/30/a-new-model-of-community-care-aspire-health-and-transforming-advanced-illness-care/?sh=181118d8b76a | title=A New Model of Community Care: Aspire Health and Transforming Advanced Illness Care | website=[[Forbes]] }}</ref> before it was acquired by Anthem in 2018.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/05/23/anthem-to-buy-advanced-care-provider-aspire-health/?sh=7f02fa794bf7 | title=Anthem to Buy Advanced Care Provider Aspire Health | website=[[Forbes]] }}</ref> The care model was inspired in part by the team-based approach Frist had used in caring for patients awaiting transplants.

In 2015, Frist co-founded Frist Cressey Ventures, a Nashville-based venture capital firm focused on partnering with early-stage healthcare companies. He is an active partner in the firm today.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fcventures.com/team/ | title=Team }}</ref>

Frist also serves as board chair of Monogram Health, a value-based specialty provider of in-home evidence-based care and benefit management services for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.monogramhealth.com/leadership-team | title=Leadership Team }}</ref> Based in Nashville, Tennessee, and privately held by Frist Cressey Ventures and other leading strategic and financial investors, Monogram Health provides care for patients across 34 states and all insurance products.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.monogramhealth.com/press/monogram-health-closes-375m-growth-capital-raise-to-support-continued-expansion-of-innovative-in-home-kidney-and-polychronic-care-model | title=Monogram Health Closes $375M Growth Capital Raise to Support Continued Expansion of Innovative In-Home Kidney and Polychronic Care Model | date=January 9, 2023 }}</ref>

===Philanthropy===
In 2009, Frist launched a statewide education reform nonprofit organization targeting K-12 education called SCORE (State Collaborative on Reforming Education).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tnscore.org/|title=Home|website=SCORE|accessdate=March 7, 2023}}</ref> The organization's mission is to "collaboratively support Tennessee's work to prepare students for college and the workforce." Frist has served as chairman of SCORE's board of directors. As part of SCORE's work, Frist annually presents the State of Education in Tennessee report, a comprehensive look at the state's efforts to improve public education.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wsmv.com/story/20967300/reform-group-to-release-study-on-tn-education |title=Reform group to release study on Tennessee education |access-date=February 14, 2013 |archive-date=June 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618075909/http://www.wsmv.com/story/20967300/reform-group-to-release-study-on-tn-education |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2013, Frist voiced support for higher academic standards in grades K-12, reauthorization of the [[Elementary and Secondary Education Act]], and improving efforts to identify, foster, and reward effective teaching.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://theweek.com/articles/474143/crucial-need-hold-students-higher-standard | title=The crucial need to hold students to a higher standard | website=[[The Week]] | date=July 3, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/come-together-on-education-reform-049081 | title=Come together on education reform | website=[[Politico]] | date=February 9, 2011 }}</ref>

In 2010, Frist served on the six-person board of the [[Clinton Bush Haiti Fund]], which had raised $66 million for immediate [[earthquake]] relief and long-term recovery efforts in the [[Caribbean]] country.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/03/22/25560/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319230450/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/03/22/25560/ | archive-date=March 19, 2012 | title=Bolten '76, Frist '74 appointed to serve on Clinton Bush Haiti Fund's Board of Directors - the Daily Princetonian }}</ref>

Frist also founded and chairs Hope Through Healing Hands, a global health non-profit, as well as community health collaborative NashvilleHealth. In 2019 NashvilleHealth completed, in partnership with the Nashville Metro Public Health Department, the first community health and well-being survey of Nashville/Davidson County residents in nearly 20 years.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nashvillehealth.org/survey/ | title=Survey }}</ref> The organization also led a review of Nashville's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, detailing recommendations to improve future crisis response in a report, ''Strategies for Future Preparedness: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 in Nashville''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nashvillehealth.org/covid-response/ | title=Nashville COVID-19 Response Review }}</ref>

===Board service===
Frist has served on numerous public, private, and non-profit boards. He currently serves as chairman of the lllGlobal lllBoard of [[The Nature Conservancy]], a three-year term that began in October 2022, and has been a member of the board since June 2015, previously as vice-chair.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 15, 2022 |title=Senator Bill Frist Elected Incoming Chair of The Nature Conservancy's Board of Directors |url=https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/senator-bill-frist-incoming-board-chair-tnc/}}</ref> He has also served on the non-profit boards of the [[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]] (2013–2023),<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 8, 2023 |title=The Honorable William H. Frist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |url=https://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/leadership-staff/rwjf-board/the-honorable-william-h-frist.html}}</ref> and previously spent 10 years on the board of the [[Kaiser Family Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 17, 2009 |title=William H. Frist and Gerald Rosberg Appointed to Kaiser Family Foundation Board of Trustees |url=https://www.kff.org/other/press-release/william-h-frist-and-gerald-rosberg-appointed-to-kaiser-family-foundation-board-of-trustees/}}</ref>

Other current board services includes: Aegis Sciences Corporation, Devoted Health, Digital Diagnostics, [[MDsave]], Monogram Health, OneOncology, Select Medical, and [[Teladoc]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 8, 2023 |title=About Bill Frist |url=http://billfrist.com/about/}}</ref> Prior service includes: Accolade, [[URS Corporation|URS Corp]]., and [[AECOM]].<ref name=eb />

He has been a member of the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Advisory Council since 2010, and previously chaired the Harvard Medical School's Board of Fellows<ref name=eb /> and served on Princeton University's board of trustees for fifteen years (1974–1978 and 1991–2001).<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2007 |title=Former Senator Frist to join Wilson School faculty |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2007/06/19/former-senator-frist-join-wilson-school-faculty }}</ref>

Frist has held numerous roles with the [[Smithsonian Institution]], including serving on its board of regents (1997–2007).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frist, William H. (02/22/1952-) |url=https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_11154 |access-date=February 28, 2023 |website=Smithsonian Institution Archives}}</ref> Congress established the Smithsonian in 1846 as "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," and vested responsibility for the administration of the Smithsonian in a board of regents, consisting of the chief justice of the United States, the vice president of the United States, three members of the United States Senate, three members of the United States House of Representatives, and nine citizens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Board of Regents |url=https://www.si.edu/regents |access-date=February 28, 2023 |website=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> Frist later served on the advisory board of the Smithsonian's [[National Museum of the American Indian]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2022 |title=Smithsonian Institution (SI) Meeting Minutes of the Advisory Board of the National Museum of the American Indian 2015 |url=https://www.governmentattic.org/44docs/SIminutesABNMAI_2015.pdf}}</ref>

From 2007 to 2010 he served on the board of the [[Millennium Challenge Corporation]], a government corporation established in 2004 to fight global poverty.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2007/10/frist-confirmed-to-anti-poverty-post-003862 | title=Frist confirmed to anti-poverty post | website=[[Politico]] | date=October 26, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mcc.gov/blog/entry/restoring_hope_in_haiti | title=Blog: Restoring Hope in Haiti | date=January 21, 2010 }}</ref>

===Other endeavors===
[[File:WHF Headshot.jpg|thumb|right|Frist in 2009]]
After leaving the U.S. Senate, Frist taught at Princeton and Vanderbilt. From 2007- 2008 Frist served as the Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Visiting professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frist to speak on global health |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/07/1203/nn/ |access-date=February 28, 2023 |website=Princeton University}}</ref> teaching with his longtime mentor, renowned healthcare economist [[Uwe Reinhardt]].  From 2009 – 2010, Frist taught as a Distinguished Professor at [[Vanderbilt University]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 14, 2008 |title=Senator Bill Frist to teach MBA & medical students at Vanderbilt |url=https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2008/10/14/senator-bill-frist-to-teach-mba-medical-students-at-vanderbilt-66289/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=Vanderbilt University |language=en-US}}</ref> with Congressman [[Jim Cooper]] (D-TN).<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2005 |title=Rep. Jim Cooper to teach in Vanderbilt's Health Care MBA program |url=https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2005/10/04/rep-jim-cooper-to-teach-in-vanderbilts-health-care-mba-program-59223/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=Vanderbilt University |language=en-US}}</ref>

Frist also became a co-chair of One Vote '08, an initiative of the [[ONE campaign]], with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). According to OneVote.org, "One Vote '08 is an unprecedented, non-partisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2008 presidential election."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onevote08.org/aboutone.php|title=One Vote '08|access-date=November 11, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081108030251/http://www.onevote08.org/aboutone.php|archive-date=November 8, 2008}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2020}} Frist traveled to Africa for the ONE campaign in July 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.one.org/international/page-not-found/|date=April 2, 2014|website=One|title=ONE campaign|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115200136/https://www.one.org/international/page-not-found/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Since 2011, Frist has served as a senior fellow at the [[Bipartisan Policy Center]], and is co-chair of the organization's Health Project with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bill Frist |url=https://bipartisanpolicy.org/person/bill-frist/ |website=bipartisanpolicy.org |publisher=Bipartisan Policy Center |access-date=March 14, 2020}}</ref>

Frist is a trained pilot, a skill he used to annually travel to all 95 Tennessee counties while campaigning and in office.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bill Frist -- Aviation |url=http://billfrist.com/aviation/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=Bill Frist: Public Speaker, Former Senate Majority Leader and Cardiothoracic Surgeon |language=en-US}}</ref>

An active runner while in the Senate, Frist completed seven marathons from 1998 – 2001.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Phillips |first=Angus |date=October 24, 2001 |title=He's Still Just Bill on Capitol Hill |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2001/10/24/hes-still-just-bill-on-capitol-hill/d370d441-0088-4f5f-90e4-387d4bb459d9/}}</ref>