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Brad Smith, CEO of palliative care startup Aspire Health, and Michael Bailey, CEO of collaborative health provider startup Unity Physician Partners, have a lot in common when it comes to their recently formed businesses. Both tout the benefits of patient-centered care that takes into account the needs of the whole person, and both raised their first round of venture capital last summer, aided by a big asset touted repeatedly during a Tuesday afternoon Nashville Health Care Council panel: relationships.

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