social work

November 1, 2023

A stroke left Kate Adamson trapped in her body, unable to communicate. Here’s how she recovered and became a VUMC social worker.

“You can see and hear everything around you, but you appear dead. It is like being locked in a glass coffin.”

By Bill Snyder
Amy Hulings, LCSW, left, and Amy Hulings, LCSW, helped lauch Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital’s new social work fellowship program. (photo by Susan Urmy)
July 7, 2022

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital adds social work fellowship program

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital has launched a new social work fellowship which will prepare master’s degree-level graduates for social work in the behavioral health field.

By Emily Stembridge
April 29, 2021

Grisanti receives VUMC Social Worker of the Year Award

Lindsay Grisanti, LMSW, is the recipient of the Carolyn Edwards Social Worker of the Year Award at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Tom Wilemon
Erika Rodriguez-Muñoz, LMSW, receives her plaque from Josh Owens, LCSW, director of Transition Management, after she was named Carolyn Edwards Social Worker of the Year at the annual Social Work Luncheon. Rodriguez-Muñoz works at Vanderbilt Women’s Health One Hundred Oaks and is project coordinator for the Obstetrics Opioid Use Disorder Quality Improvement project and a leader for Team HOPE, a multidisciplinary team that focuses on the optimization of opioid exposed newborns. She was one of 20 nominees for the honor, which is named for longtime VUMC social worker Carolyn Edwards. The luncheon and award presentation were part of the Transition Management Office’s observance of March as Social Work Month.
April 11, 2019

Social Worker of the Year

Erika Rodriguez-Muñoz, LMSW, receives her plaque from Josh Owens, LCSW, director of Transition Management, after she was named Carolyn Edwards Social Worker of the Year at the annual Social Work Luncheon. Rodriguez-Muñoz works at Vanderbilt Women’s Health One Hundred Oaks.

By VUMC News and Communications
April 6, 2017

VUMC social workers make positive impact on patients, families

Whether it be helping families cope with the loss of a loved one, connecting homeless patients to community services or providing drug-addicted mothers with treatment options, social workers all work toward the common goal of facilitating positive change in the lives of patients and families.

By Matt Batcheldor
March 16, 2017

Social worker Jones thrives on helping patients, families

“Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry” reads a sign next to the door as you exit Stacy Jones’ office on the 8th floor of Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital (VUAH). As a social worker on the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Vanderbilt, the sign’s wording fits Jones’ personality.

By Jessica Pasley
March 10, 2016

Social Worker of the Year

Jenna Brent, LMSW, proudly displays her award after being named the Carolyn Edwards Social Worker of the Year during a luncheon held last week by VUMC’s Department of Social Work.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 7, 2013

Conference celebrates 85 years of social work

A social work conference, “Current Issues in Tennessee: Human Trafficking and Dual Diagosis,” will be held Tuesday, March 12, in the Scarritt Bennett Center’s Raintree Room.
By Wayne Wood
February 7, 2013

Shade Tree’s social work team helps meet needs

In an emotional moment at the Shade Tree Clinic, patient Faris Al-Jashami grasped medical student Stephen Dorner’s hand and vigorously shook it. He thanked Dorner repeatedly for helping him, but it wasn’t help for a medical problem.
By VUMC News and Communications