Kristin Nguyen

Nashville resident Bill Boyce’s successful recovery from COVID-19 included phone calls from VUMC nursing staff and his personal physician after his positive test, followed by a 28-day hospitalization and close monitoring by nursing staff after he returned home.
July 9, 2020

Coordinated care network ensures COVID-positive patient makes recovery

On March 27, Nashville resident Bill Boyce, 73, earned the unwelcome distinction of becoming the first patient intubated on Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s dedicated COVID-19 unit.

By Jill Clendening
May 6, 2020

As Frank Rummo died of COVID-19, his family gathered to tell him they loved him — through an iPad and the touch of his nurse, Maddie Hayes.

“If his family had been there, they would have wanted to hold and touch his hand and rub his head, so that’s what I did”

By Nancy Humphrey
April 12, 2019

First quarter DAISY Awards honor three extraordinary nurses

DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries. This is Vanderbilt’s latest group.

By Matt Batcheldor