Access to the new center’s services are limited to existing adult Vanderbilt Health patients referred by Vanderbilt Health clinicians. The center will not accept walk-up patients or referrals from providers outside the Vanderbilt Health system.

Six medically important tick species live in the state, and many Tennesseans encounter ticks in their own yard or neighborhood. Perhaps attributable to changing weather patterns and rising temperatures, Vanderbilt Health’s Emergency Medicine physicians around the region began treating patients with tick bites in March this year.

Locks for Community Safety (LOCS) provides free gun locks to patients and family members to expand safety measures and safe gun storage to the community.

“We were able to begin CPR so quickly and get oxygen restored to his brain … we had a good outcome.”

Vanderbilt Health burn doctors offer Fourth of July safety advice — starting with sparklers.

Three team responses were recognized among the state’s best, highlighting lifesaving collaboration and critical care across multiple emergency incidents.

More than 100 Vanderbilt Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians, paramedics, registered nurses, nurse practitioners and doctors will work the four-day festival, putting in an anticipated 1,700 total hours.