Dr. Joseph Pazona

Nashville, TN

I help rural hospital executives implement comprehensive outpatient urology clinics with outpatient surgical procedures. CEO of VirtuCare.

About Dr. Joseph Pazona

I create jobs for burned out healthcare professionals. I also help frustrated healthcare administrators provide much needed medical services in rural communities. Physicians and other healthcare professionals are leaving clinical medicine because they feel taken advantage of by a broken healthcare system. Simultaneously, rural healthcare executives are struggling to recruit high quality physicians to their communities. Declining supply, increasing demand. This is not sustainable.

The solution: prioritizing the healthcare team, leveraging technological solutions (e.g. telemedicine) and engaging in collaborative conversations with physicians and administrators.

As a physician-entrepreneur-CEO with over 15 years of experience caring for patients in rural, mid-size and metropolitan markets, I understand the challenges and nuances of building a healthcare model and team to solve these issues.

Prior to the pandemic I formed VirtuCare, a telemedicine company that partners with rural healthcare systems to implement outpatient urology clinics and surgical services. We have successfully launched our services at 6 different sites across 4 healthcare systems. VirtuCare has created a new physician position of tele-urologist and offers consistent, remote work for urologists with a dynamic team.

In August 2020, I opened Pazona MD Urology in Nashville, TN as a solo practitioner. Now in 2025, we have recruited 3 advanced practice providers and an additional urologist all while receiving over 1000 5-star Google reviews. Our mission is to scale into other specialties throughout Tennessee and into additional markets as we deliver accessible healthcare with a smile.

If you are a frustrated healthcare professional looking for a new position or a healthcare administrator struggling to recruit physicians then please contact me.

Recruiters – I clearly don’t need more work.

Financial advisors – every penny I have is re-invested in this business. You wouldn’t like my portfolio.

Investors – I am not considering outside funding at this time but thanks for the consideration.

Education

Northwestern University

Residency