Patient Spotlight Archive — Page 6 of 12
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November 22, 2023
Gracie was with her mom and grandmother on a road trip. A medical emergency brought the Angel 7 ambulance to her rescue.
Angel 7 is the first pediatric transport team in Tennessee to offer extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — ECMO — for its patients. It was the difference in life and death. -
October 12, 2023
The couple was staying in the hospital with a sick child. When the staff heard it was their anniversary, they arranged a special dinner with candlelight and flowers.
Jim and Jill Somerville ended up with an anniversary to remember — and a commemorative plaque -
September 21, 2023
Two miracles, four years apart
Kelly Harden's life was saved by a lung transplant. Exactly four years later, she was saved again with a kidney transplant. -
September 15, 2023
A year of teamwork restores patient’s arm after devastating accident
Hundreds of Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, Trauma, Orthopaedic Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Occupational Therapy clinicians have played a role in saving and restoring the function of patient Dawn Reed’s right arm and hand after a utility terrain vehicle accident. -
September 1, 2023
Holding hands one more time: Compassion and collaboration allow couple to spend the most precious time together
Virginia and Tommy Stevens, both 91, have been married 69 years and this was the time they needed each other the most. Compassionate problem-solving by the Palliative Care Unit and the Trauma Intensive Care Unit teams brought the loving couple together one more time. -
June 26, 2023
‘Old fashioned texting’: patient and her caregivers chat via signs in windows
The clinic building faces the hospital building, and when Katy Rose was in the hospital, she began posting signs for her clinic nurse to see. It kind of grew from there. -
June 8, 2023
Dread credits Anticoagulation Clinic for continued health after his stroke
Then-Nashville Metro Councilman Adam Dread suffered a major stroke 20 years ago. To this day, he credits Vanderbilt's Anticoagulation Clinic for his continued health.