Special Video Message from Dr. Jeff Balser, President and CEO, on VUMC's role in offering hope and healing

Dr. Jeff Balser talks about VUMC as a place of hope and healing not only of illness, but of inequality and injustice, and how the Medical Center must comfort and provide hope to those who are hurting, whatever the source of that pain. View...

Read the transcript from Dr. Balser's video message

Hi, everyone. For the past several months we have faced a tremendous challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic. We have talked a lot about COVID and as you know, that crisis is not over -- but because of your hard work and courage we are beginning to reopen activities here at VUMC, and throughout the Nashville region. However, the pandemic has not erased the ongoing challenges our country and our city face with injustice and inequality, and in many ways has made those challenges more visible. With the senseless killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis this past week -- and before him, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery -- racial injustice and the struggle for civil rights has been thrust again into the spotlight. I am horrified and saddened by these deaths. I stand with all those who mourn. View...