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Tom Cook Jr. in front of the house he won in this year’s Home with Heart Raffle. (photo by Susan Urmy)
June 3, 2024

Third time’s the charm for Home with Heart Raffle winner

This year’s Home with Heart Raffle marked the third time that Willow Branch Homes has donated a home to support Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By Jessica Pasley
Two healthcare workers pose in a hospital unit as one presents the other with a framed DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses; the certificate names Joseph Chacon, RN, 2 CC.
May 30, 2024

DAISY Award spotlight: “The absolute best nursing care that I have every witnessed. He is truly a gem.”

Joseph Chacon, RN, works in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He is is one of the latest group of DAISY Award winners at VUMC.

By Matt Batcheldor
Text-heavy graphic featuring a portrait of Kim McKinney in a white coat. The quote is attributed to Marilyn Smith, chief nursing officer of Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital, and describes staff support at McKinney’s funeral. Additional text notes that nurses from Vanderbilt hospitals covered colleagues’ units so they could attend. A caption states that McKinney began as a certified nurse assistant, rose to director, and died following a medical emergency and car wreck.
May 28, 2024

Nurses support one another as they grieve colleague

Nurses are accustomed to comforting patients and families through loss, but when they lose one of their own, it hurts in a unique, palpable way. Fortunately, they can count on each other.

By Kathy Whitney
Ann and Monroe Carell, Jr., smiling and looking at each other while seated together; she wears a dark outfit and he wears a suit and tie.
May 23, 2024

Where Hope Began: Celebrating more than 20 years of the Carell family commitment to children

Until 2004, Nashville was the only city among the top 25 in the nation that didn’t have a freestanding hospital dedicated to serving children and their families.  

By Christina Echegaray
Flat illustration of a doctor holding a clipboard beside an oversized smartphone, with medical chat panels, a heart graphic, and a speech bubble containing a medical cross.
May 17, 2024

June 15 is deadline for clinician use of Mobile Heartbeat

Multi-level concrete parking garage viewed from street level, with trees in front and overhead utility wires crossing the sky.
May 16, 2024

VUMC parking permit renewal information is here