Ashish Shah, MD, center, holds a plaque of appreciation from the North Patchogue Fire Department in Long Island, New York. Bob Meyer, left, is a volunteer firefighter for the department who received a heart transplant at the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, performed by Shah. Jim Hawley, BSN, RN, right, is a former Vanderbilt nurse who made his old friend, Meyer, aware of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.
Transplant
Chance encounter brings New York firefighter to Vanderbilt Health for heart transplant
Bob Meyer got on the heart transplant list locally in New York. He had no way of knowing at the time that a chance encounter would point him to the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, and he would receive a new heart nearly 1,000 miles away.
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Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
In 2004, three floors moved out of Vanderbilt University Hospital and into a different building. Demand soared. Now, that building is a 12-floor, 325-bed state-of-the-art hospital, with more beds coming later this year. Middle Tennessee’s first full-service children’s hospital is commemorating its mission of caring for children and their families.
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