Opening Monday, April 20, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute's new clinic at Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks will feature eight exam rooms, a consultation room and a large central waiting area for patients and families. (photo by Joe Howell)
VHVI to debut at One Hundred Oaks
The Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute will debut a new clinic on Monday, April 20, at Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks.
With the move, Vanderbilt Heart will offer everything the main campus offers, with the exception of interventional procedures and cardiac surgery, which will continue to be provided at Vanderbilt Hospital.
By adding a clinic at One Hundred Oaks, Vanderbilt Heart provides a choice of where to receive care.
“It is full service Vanderbilt Heart with its primary distinction being its location apart from Vanderbilt's main campus,” said Rob Hood, M.D., who will serve as medical director for Vanderbilt Heart One Hundred Oaks.
“Most patients I have spoken with have been enthusiastic about going out to One Hundred Oaks,” said Emily Kurtz, M.D., who will head up the prevention program.
Vanderbilt Heart is among the first clinics to open in the refurbished facility, which features environmentally friendly enhancements throughout and ample natural light along its central concourse.
Vanderbilt Heart at One Hundred Oaks will be housed in a specially designed clinic space with eight exam rooms, a consultation room and a large patient-friendly central waiting area.
Best of all, there is a spacious dressing room with doors and lockers so patients can secure their belongings.
Aside from offering general cardiology services and treating patients with a wide range of heart problems, Vanderbilt Heart at One Hundred Oaks will offer a formalized cardiovascular prevention program with health risk assessment and risk factor management. The prevention program will operate side by side and interactively with the existing lipid management clinic.
In Tennessee and the surrounding regions, this kind of integral, multidisciplinary preventive care is unique to Vanderbilt.
“We will continue to provide comprehensive care for cardiac disease in two locations,” Hood said.
“Our goal is to be able to bring the entire treatment team to our patients in order to provide a true multidisciplinary experience in a secondary setting that may prove to be more convenient for a significant subset of our patient population.”
Vanderbilt Heart at One Hundred Oaks offers same day physician consultations and diagnostic services for referring physicians.
Vanderbilt Heart at One Hundred Oaks will be open Monday through Friday. Free valet parking is available at One Hundred Oaks, which is accessible from Interstate 65, Exit 79, then right on Powell Avenue.