Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute

March 14, 2013

VUMC testing new payment system for Medicare patients

Over the next three years, Medicare will test a new payment arrangement that rewards participating hospitals when Medicare patients require fewer inpatient and post-discharge services, but extracts financial penalties when patients require more of these services.

By Paul Govern
March 7, 2013

Structural heart disease clinic debuts at One Hundred Oaks

Life just got a little easier for Vanderbilt patients with structural heart disease.

By Kathy Whitney
February 21, 2013

Photo: Heart Institute Town Hall

By Doug Campbell
November 15, 2012

Advanced heart failure care now offered in Columbia

Under the direction of cardiologist Rebecca Hung, M.D., Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute is offering advanced heart failure services at its Columbia, Tenn., office.

By Kathy Whitney
September 20, 2012

Vanderbilt Heart colleagues release “Walk the Walk” to promote Oct. 6 Nashville Heart Walk

By Kathy Whitney
August 23, 2012

Multiple procedures, devices help heart patient pull through

After Stacey Browning, R.N., a Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit charge nurse, got a report on a heart attack patient who was being transported to her unit from an outside hospital, her immediate thought was, “They are sending us a patient we are not going to be able to recover.”

By Kathy Whitney
August 16, 2012

Town hall meeting outlines Heart Institute’s busy year

The Department of Cardiac Surgery experienced its highest case volume to date with 1,245 adult cardiac surgeries at Vanderbilt University Hospital during the last fiscal year, according to department chair John Byrne, M.D., who spoke at Vanderbilt Heart’s quarterly town hall on Friday.
By Kathy Whitney
August 9, 2012

Time was critical for new mother’s heart surgery

Two weeks after giving birth to her second child on July 10, 31-year-old Samantha Neal began to experience chest pain. Initially diagnosed with a gall bladder issue in her local ER, her true diagnosis would prove much more serious and potentially life-threatening.
By Kathy Whitney
August 2, 2012

VHVI reaches milestone in heart valve procedures

Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute recently performed its 100th transcatheter aortic heart valve-replacement (TAVR) on 91-year-old Murline Westover from Lavinia, Tenn.
By Kathy Whitney
February 6, 2012

Hall of Famer Raymond Berry sports Vanderbilt tie at Super Bowl XLVI

By Nancy Humphrey
February 4, 2012

Hall of Famer plans to sport Vanderbilt tie while presenting Super Bowl trophy

By Nancy Humphrey
January 5, 2012

Number of heart transplants at VUMC on rise

By Jessica Pasley
January 5, 2012

VHVI at Williamson Medical Center set to open

By Kathy Whitney