Message from Dr. Jeff Balser, President and CEO, about the importance of masking

Dr. Jeff Balser announces new VUMC masking guidance and encourages everyone to do three things to prevent the spread of COVID-19: wear a mask; wash your hands; stay six feet apart. View...

Read the transcript from Dr. Balser's video message

As you've seen over the past several weeks, COVID is presenting new challenges to our city and to the VUMC community. The number of new COVID cases has risen, in the Nashville area, and throughout Tennessee. As this happens, more people have needed treatment in our hospitals. View...

Required masking of all VUMC personnel (in clinical, non-clinical, research and public areas)

Knowledge regarding COVID-19 is rapidly expanding. This allows the opportunity to update PPE policies to incorporate the best evidence about issues like masking. Given what has been learned about COVID-19, universal masking, in addition to social distancing and frequent hand hygiene, will help prevent spread secondary to pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic infection. View...