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78% of Nurse Practitioners want to start their own businesses. 🔥
Almost none of them ever did, because the system made it nearly impossible.
That is the problem Corner Health was built to solve.
Co-founders Lava Sunder and Anne Gifford spent years talking to NPs. What they found was consistent: NPs are wildly entrepreneurial, deeply capable, and completely constrained by the administrative weight of running a practice. Billing. Insurance. Scheduling. Lab orders. Referrals. Patient communication. Without a team behind them, none of it was manageable alone.
Corner Health eliminates that constraint.
The company is not a consumer brand. It is an operating layer, one that lets NPs function as solo practitioners without hiring a single support staff member. Corner’s AI tool handles the full administrative stack, so the clinician can focus entirely on the patient.
💡 Here is what that looks like in practice:
– 70 NPs are already running their own businesses on the platform
– The service is live in Arizona and Washington state
– Some of those NPs have already doubled their salaries compared to hospital system roles
– Corner is on track to have more locations than Amazon’s One Medical by the end of the year
In 27 states, Nurse Practitioners can already operate with full practice authority. That means they can run their own clinics, outside hospital systems, legally and independently. The regulatory window is open. The technology just had to catch up.
According to Fortune, the company just closed a $25 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT. With $7.5 million in prior seed and pre-seed funding, total capital raised now stands at $32.5 million. Oak HC/FT founding partner Annie Lamont has been watching the regulatory shift for NPs for more than a decade. Her framing is direct: “It was a job and it wasn’t a career. And I think people are looking more for careers.”
77% of NPs are women. That is not a footnote. It is the center of this story.
This is a workforce that has been systematically underutilized. They have the clinical skills. They have the entrepreneurial drive. What they have historically lacked is the infrastructure. Corner Health is building that infrastructure.
Primary care in this country is fractured. Patients wait weeks for appointments. Clinicians burn out inside systems that treat them as interchangeable. Corner’s model flips that by giving the clinician ownership, financially and operationally.
I think this is what healthcare workforce transformation actually looks like. Not a staffing app. Not a scheduling tool. A genuine rearchitecting of who gets to build and own a practice.
Watch this one closely.
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CEO/Co-Founder @ Oatmeal Health | AI Lung Cancer Screening | Almost Became a Doctor | Engineer | Follow to Share What I’ve Learned Along the Way
I help patients get the care they need earlier, preventing late-stage cancer.
That’s been the throughline across three companies and almost 20 years in healthcare. At ReferralMD, we fixed broken referral networks so patients didn’t fall through the cracks. At Oatmeal Health, it’s lung cancer: building the diagnostic and screening infrastructure so the 85% of cases caught too late get caught early instead.
Today as CEO of Oatmeal Health, I lead a team embedding AI into radiology workflows to turn routine lung CT scans into reimbursable cancer risk assessments. We partner with FQHCs to reach underserved communities, and with health systems and payers to make early detection economically sustainable. Think HeartFlow or Cleerly, but for lungs.
Between companies, I advised at Techstars and Plug and Play, mentoring founders building in digital health. That experience shaped how I think about what separates companies that ship from companies that stall: distribution, reimbursement, and clinical trust, not just technology.
I’m a CancerX alumnus, a 3x healthcare founder, and someone who believes the biggest problems in cancer aren’t scientific. They’re operational.
We’re hiring mission-driven builders at Oatmeal Health. If you want to work on something that matters, reach out.
When I’m not working, I’m traveling, mentoring, and keeping up with one very energetic husky. 🐾
Substack – The Oatmeal Bite:
Millions of patients get less care because of who they are, where they live, or how they look. I’m fighting to change that. CEO @OatmealHealth, a startup built for the underserved. The Oatmeal Bite: intel for clinicians, investors, and advocates.
Jonathan Govette
CEO of Oatmeal Health
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https://oatmealhealthjonathangovette.substack.com/
