Mission of Caring

Vanderbilt’s nationally recognized Trauma Center treats amazing array of injuries

On a given day, the Vanderbilt Trauma Center may admit multiple gunshot and motor vehicle accident victims. For 27 years, across nearly 100,000 admissions, the Trauma Center’s physicians, nurses and staff have been treating patients arriving from a region covering 80,000 square miles.

Saved by an angel — in Aldi

Steve Glaeser fell in an Aldi supermarket; a Vanderbilt Health critical care nurse saved his life.

Patient Sekou Toure works on a painting during a Recovery Art Workshop at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

Healing Through Expression: Young Adults’ Journey in Recovery Art Workshop (slideshow)

The class was created by a specialty team that works with young adults who have experienced their first hospitalization or episode of psychosis within the past two years.

André Churchwell honored with portrait unveiling

The portrait was unveiled during a celebration event at the Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center.

Suzanne Duckworth rings the bell in honor of her husband, Matt Duckworth. (photo by Susan Urmy)

All cancer patients at Vanderbilt-Ingram will have the opportunity to ring the bell 

Seven months after cancer patient Matt Duckworth’s death, the bell pealed loudly at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center infusion clinic as a plaque was unveiled in his honor.

The Huntington’s Disease Program is led by new co-directors Amy E. Brown, MD, MS, assistant professor of Neurology, and social worker Spencer Diehl, LCSW. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

Clinic supports patients, families affected by Huntington’s disease with multidisciplinary care and empathy

The clinic is part of a collection of subspecialties that work together to treat movement disorders, including Huntington’s disease, multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy.

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