Author: Wayne Wood
Heart Walk participants earn 100,000 bonus steps in the Fit for Fall Health Challenge
Sep. 20, 2022—All VUMC employees who participate in the American Heart Association 2022 Great Nashville Heart Walk will earn 100,000 bonus steps in this year’s Fit for Fall Step Challenge. The 100,000-step bonus will earn participants the “Step It Up with Health Plus Step Challenges”-action in the Wellness Actions Log for Health Plus’ Go for the Gold,...
Box migration to begin in December
Sep. 9, 2022—Many employees at VUMC use Box, a cloud content management solution, to store, share and collaborate on files. In December 2022, Box content will begin migrating primarily to Microsoft services. Any content that does not align well with OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. The Box Migration initiative...
MyWorkday Change Network meeting focuses on supply chain changes
Apr. 11, 2022—MyWorkday is VUMC’s enterprise-wide project to replace existing business systems and processes. As the Medical Center continues to prepare for this fall’s go-live, more than 1,100 people met virtually March 31 to hear from project leaders in the second Change Network meeting. Those in the meeting hold important roles, some designated as department readiness leads...
Annual observance of Doctors’ Day is March 30; Vanderbilt Health dedicated website set up for donations and messages
Mar. 23, 2022—Every day, Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctors go above and beyond to provide compassionate, personalized health care for our patients. On Doctors’ Day, March 30, you may show your appreciation for a doctor who has made a difference in your life or the life of someone you love by writing a note and making a...
VUMC donates medical supplies bound for Ukraine
Mar. 17, 2022—Vanderbilt University Medical Center responded to pleas for help from Ukrainian health officials by donating several tons of medical supplies to be shipped to Ukraine in coming days.
The MyWorkday project will touch all areas of VUMC; Change Network of employees begins its work
Mar. 4, 2022—MyWorkday is VUMC’s enterprise-wide project to replace existing business systems and processes. The MyWorkday project at VUMC involves the implementation of two new cloud-based systems, Workday and Tecsys. Taken together, this extensive transition of dozens of VUMC business systems set to occur later this year took a major step forward in late February with the...
Noted clinician, educator Lefkowitz mourned
Sep. 30, 2021—Lewis Lefkowitz, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, emeritus, whose dedication to health equity and underserved communities helped thousands of patients and influenced generations of Vanderbilt medical students, died Sept. 26. He was 90.
Vanderbilt mourns former Emergency Medicine leader Auerbach
Jun. 30, 2021—Paul Auerbach, MD, former chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, died June 23 in Los Altos, California.
New policy outlines how patients’ belongings, valuables are handled
May. 19, 2021—VUMC is in the process of implementing a new policy governing how the institution handles patients’ belongings and valuables.
VEI book wins four regional ADDY awards
Mar. 22, 2021—The Vanderbilt Eye Institute’s 50th anniversary book recently won four ADDY awards, including Best of Show in the print category, in the 2021 competition conducted by the Nashville chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF).
Buttons demonstrate wearers’ pronoun use
Mar. 17, 2021—The VUMC Office of Diversity Affairs is making available buttons that employees and students can wear telling what pronouns the wearer uses, or, in one case, a conversation starter that simply says “Ask me about my pronouns!”
Variety of influences helped shape Birch’s medical career
Oct. 22, 2020—Andrea Birch was 9 years old and on top of the world. Her visiting cousin had challenged her to a tree-climbing contest, and, as a competitive kid always up for a challenge, she had outclimbed him. She was looking down at him from her lofty perch and, as she recalls, “goading him from the top.
