{"id":16082,"date":"2020-05-10T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T15:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2020-05-10T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T14:20:36","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-lays-out-next-steps-for-unified-command-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/05\/10\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-lays-out-next-steps-for-unified-command-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee lays out Next Steps for Unified-Command Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced next steps for the Unified-Command Group as Stuart McWhorter departs the administration at the end of May to go back to the private sector and to take on a senior advisory role at Clemson University.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444646\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444646\" title=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee-480x325.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Governor Bill Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuart has been a tremendous asset to my administration, first as the commissioner of Finance and Administration, then in his role as director for our COVID-19 Coronavirus response through Unified-Command,\u201d said Governor Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis ability to apply private-sector expertise to public-sector challenges has served our state well and I wish him the best in his new chapter with his alma mater\u2019s entrepreneurship and innovation planning,\u201d Governor Lee stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Unified-Command Group, comprised of the Tennessee Department of Health, the Tennessee Department of Military and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, has established working procedures for testing, procurement, hospital capacity contingency planning, data analysis and other core functions in the fight against COVID-19 Coronavirus. The Unified-Command Group continues to coordinate with the Economic Recovery Group through planning and executing on the safe re-boot of Tennessee\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strong work of Unified-Command will continue as we address the ongoing COVID-19 Coronavirus public health crisis,\u201d said Governor Lee. \u201cThis group has optimized our state\u2019s response and we will keep this model in place for as long as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced next steps for the Unified-Command Group as Stuart McWhorter departs the administration at the end of May to go back to the private sector and to take on a senior advisory role at Clemson University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[12333,13005,12675,12712,12798,12932,549,284,12799,7379,872,261,513,871,3350,13006],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-bill-lee","tag-clemson-university","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-unified-command","tag-economic-recovery-group","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-stuart-mcwhorter","tag-tdh","tag-tema","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-health","tag-tennessee-emergency-management-agency","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-the-tennessee-department-of-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16083,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions\/16083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}