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Bright yellow roadside sign reading “STATE LAW” with a yield symbol and right-pointing arrow; pedestrians cross a street in the background.
August 8, 2011

Take precautions against back-to-school pedestrian injuries

It’s back-to-school time, and safety experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are offering safety tips for children and their parents to help prevent pedestrian injuries, which often increase as the school year begins.

August Washington stands in a newly renovated communications center, with multiple computer workstations and wall-mounted surveillance monitors behind him.
July 26, 2011

VUPD opens new communications command center

The new 24-7 communications office will be available for emergency walk-up day or night.

Two clinicians in surgical caps and blue scrubs review a document in a neurosurgery operating room, with medical imaging equipment and monitors behind them.
July 19, 2011

VUMC No. 14 in U.S. News and World Report ‘Honor Roll’

A smiling healthcare worker in a red shirt stands in a clinic doorway while another staff member stands behind him; two seated adults laugh in a waiting area with magazine racks and health posters on the wall.
July 18, 2011

Clinic offers one-stop approach for ALS patients

Close-up of a gauge face showing markings numbered 20, 30, 40, and 100, with a red pointer near 40.
July 14, 2011

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt urges parents to guard against extreme heat

With indexes as high as 110 degrees this week in Middle Tennessee, doctors at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are asking parents to remain vigilant against hyperthermia and other heat-related illnesses.

Illustration of a blue human head in profile with the brain visible inside the skull.
July 7, 2011

New program supports children with brain injuries

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has helped launch a new program to support children diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after they leave the hospital.