COVID-19 update May 19, 2020

Patients view VUMC -- and specifically their own doctor-- as the most important source of information and reassurance about safety, according to the survey of Advise Vanderbilt members. View...

NEW: You asked, we answered


Today's question: What is VUMC doing to keep patients, visitors and employees safe as they return to work and to the clinics? View...

NEW: Volunteers help VUMC meet goal of 10,000 masks


On April 20 Vanderbilt Health kicked off a new donation drive: 10,000 cloth face masks. Volunteer sewers stepped up and helped the Medical Center meet that goal, and have pledged to make thousands more. View...

NEW: Patient connections transformed by rise of telehealth visits


At the time Tennessee's first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 5, direct-to-patient telehealth visits averaged just 10 a day at all of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's outpatient clinics. Less than a month later, outpatient telehealth appointments had skyrocketed to more than 2,000 per day. View...

NEW: VUMC's research enterprise begins research "ramp-up" to safely return to activity


As Nashville cautiously begins to emerge from its two-month-long COVID-19 Safer at Home response, so too are the labs and facilities at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...