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December 19, 2022

Scenes from 2022 holiday season at VUMC

Silent nights don’t happen here; there’s too much work to be done caring for our patients and our community. But Medical Center employees still create a festive atmosphere and reach out to others in this season of giving and celebration.

By: VUMC News and Communications

A festive greeting outside Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Photo by Susan Urmy

Vanderbilt University Medical Center never closes. Silent nights don’t happen here; there’s too much work to be done caring for our patients and our community. But Medical Center employees still create a festive atmosphere and reach out to others in this season of giving and celebration. Here are a few scenes of people and places from the 2022 holiday season.

The plaza tannenbaum brings color to wintertime on the VUMC Plaza.
Photo by Susan Urmy
Liliana Capiola with Volunteer Services helps deliver poinsettias to a waiting room. More than 800 of the holiday plants were given to patients and placed in public areas around the Medical Center. Photo by Erin O. Smith
Frosty, or possibly one of his cousins, joins the children at play in front of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Photo by Susan Urmy
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student Anna Henricks, left, accepts a donation from Kate Wooldridge, MD, MPH, at the donation station on the VUMC Plaza for the medical school’s annual donation drive for the Shade Tree Clinic, the school’s student-led clinic for uninsured patients. On behalf of patients and families of the clinic, students accepted donations of food, clothing, children’s toys and other household items. Photo by Susan Urmy
It’s not the North Pole, it’s Medical Center North, but reindeer may safely graze. Photo by Susan Urmy
Twins Zara and Zoe Perez, 18 months, and their mother, Rosa Eastaneda, interact with the characters from the Nativity during Sacred Celebrations in the chapel at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt while listening to the Rev. Lisa Hermann read a book. Photo by Jessica Pasley
Tidings of comfort and joy. photo by Susan Urmy