VUMC to break ground on Hendersonville multi-specialty clinic
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will break ground on Wednesday, March 4, at 2 p.m., on a new 31,000-square-foot facility that will offer adult outpatient specialty care, along with limited pediatric specialty care and imaging services to the citizens of Sumner and surrounding counties. View...
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital receives reaccreditation from Joint Commission
The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 22,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. View...
VUMC-led study set to explore risk factors for depression recurrence
Almost 60% of older adults who have successfully been treated for depression experience a recurrence within four to five years, but little is known about why this happens or who may be at highest risk. View...
VUAH applies new approach for patient recovery after surgery
At Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, a vanguard of surgical service lines, with key assistance from anesthesiology, has shown that patients can be helped to recover more quickly from major surgery, leave the hospital earlier and have fewer side effects from their pain management, all without increased rates of unexpected readmission or unexpected second operations. View...
Shade Tree Clinic Benefit Dinner and Auction set for Feb. 20
The Shade Tree Dinner and Auction, which will honor Shade Tree founders and VUSM alumni, Kristina Collins, MD, and the late Katie Cox Johnson, MD, is the first of two annual fundraising events supporting the Shade Tree Clinic, the student-run medical clinic in East Nashville which provides free health care and medications for underserved Nashvillians. View...
"Momentum": SPOREs
SPORE may have been just an acronym, not a nod to the biological definition, when the National Cancer Institute launched its Specialized Programs of Research Excellence in 1992. But the SPOREs are living up to their catchy name. They are behaving like biological spores: casting their funding "seeds" far and wide to germinate entirely new research areas, build the careers of investigators and change oncology care. View...
VUMC in the news
A roundup of a few recent stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...