Matt Batcheldor

July 20, 2022

Psychiatric Hospital Magnet visit set for Aug. 22-24

The American Nurses Credentialing Center will bring a team of appraisers to Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH) from Aug. 22-24 as part of the Magnet fourth designation process.

By Matt Batcheldor
July 14, 2022

Children’s Hospital Magnet visit set for Aug. 10-12

The American Nurses Credentialing Center will bring a team of appraisers to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Aug. 10-12 as part of the Magnet fourth designation process.

By Matt Batcheldor
Zozan Abdullah practices patient care techniques through VUMC’s Care Partner Academy.
July 13, 2022

VUMC launches tuition-free Care Partner Academy

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has launched Vanderbilt Care Partner Academy (VCPA), a tuition-free, paid training opportunity for people interested in becoming care partners.

By Matt Batcheldor
June 22, 2022

Vanderbilt Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System recognized

By Matt Batcheldor
June 8, 2022

Genes and age studied as markers for higher death rate in those with atrial fibrillation

Younger patients with atrial fibrillation who had rare genetic variants associated with inherited cardiomyopathy and arrythmia syndromes were associated with a significantly higher rate of death than those without the variants, a Vanderbilt-led study has shown.

By Matt Batcheldor
June 2, 2022

Magnet appraisers set VUH visit for Aug. 16-19

The American Nurses Credentialing Center will bring a team of appraisers to Vanderbilt University Hospital from Aug. 16-19 as part of the Magnet fourth designation process.

By Matt Batcheldor
June 2, 2022

VUMC renewed as a Comprehensive Hypertension Center

The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Hypertension Center has been awarded renewal of the American Heart Association’s Comprehensive Hypertension Center Certification,
By Matt Batcheldor
June 1, 2022

Program lets patients receive medical treatment at home

By Matt Batcheldor
May 26, 2022

State of Nursing address reviews challenges and resiliency

In her 2022 State of Nursing Address, Executive Chief Nursing Officer Marilyn Dubree, MSN, RN, NE-BC, looked back on another extraordinary year marked by multiple surges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resilient nurses who continued to respond.
By Matt Batcheldor
May 25, 2022

Jenny Leigh sets out each day to make a difference for her fellow nurses

Leigh, a nursing education specialist, provides educational support for more than 400 staff members in the NICU
By Matt Batcheldor
May 25, 2022

Study seeks to improve gender equity for liver transplantation waiting list

Women who need a liver transplant are more likely to spend more time on a waiting list, become too sick for transplant or die compared to men. To improve equity, a recently published Vanderbilt-led study suggests a sex adjustment to criteria for MELD (model for end-stage liver disease), which determines allocation of transplanted livers.
By Matt Batcheldor
May 6, 2022

Janet Darnell received a life-saving lung transplant. Five months later she received life-saving surgery for colon cancer. She calls herself a “walking miracle.”

Without the lung transplant, the cancer may never have been detected.
By Matt Batcheldor
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