COVID-19

May 8, 2020

Dr. Jeff Balser on Adapting and Thriving in a New Phase of the Pandemic

As our region begins to reopen businesses, we are entering a new phase of the pandemic. COVID-19 is still with us and remains a major public health challenge. But responsibility is shifting to all of us — as individuals and as institutions — to find new ways to live and work while keeping ourselves, and each other, safe.

By VUMC News and Communications
Metro vice mayor Jim Shulman and Dena McCormick, vice president of Vanderbilt Health Purchasing Collaborative, pose for a photo with boxes of masks being donated to Vanderbilt University Medical Center after packing the masks into a car at a temporary storage location on Monroe Street Monday, May 4, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Ferrell McDaniel Company donated thousands of masks to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
May 7, 2020

Crucial donation

Metro Nashville Vice Mayor Jim Shulman and Dena McCormick, vice president of Vanderbilt Health Purchasing Collaborative, pose for a photo after picking up boxes containing thousands of masks that were donated to VUMC by the Ferrell McDaniel Company.

By Doug Campbell
May 6, 2020

As Frank Rummo died of COVID-19, his family gathered to tell him they loved him — through an iPad and the touch of his nurse, Maddie Hayes.

“If his family had been there, they would have wanted to hold and touch his hand and rub his head, so that’s what I did”

By Nancy Humphrey
May 5, 2020

Years ago Neil Stinson trained to care for Ebola patients. Now he is on the front lines of COVID.

“A bunch of us came from different ICU environments. We became a tight team, a great team, that came together very quickly.”

By Wayne Wood
May 4, 2020

VUMC builds a service line around care of COVID-19 patients

Care of COVID-19 patients has led to swift establishment of a COVID service line at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, complete with the institutional infrastructure, planning and multi-disciplinary coordination implied by the service line designation.

By Paul Govern
May 1, 2020

Dr. Jeff Balser on a careful approach to restarting elective services

As public officials begin to lift restrictions due to COVID-19, I want to spend a few minutes today talking about our next steps at VUMC.

By VUMC News and Communications
April 30, 2020

Price’s old laboratory recipe book proves to be invaluable

Howard Price has a decades-old green notebook he keeps in his office at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and when a shortage of a critical laboratory supply nearly brought testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to a halt at the Medical Center, the notebook’s contents quickly became invaluable.
By Jill Clendening
April 30, 2020

Antibody finding raises hopes for Marburg, COVID-19 treatments

Monoclonal antibodies against Marburg virus — a more lethal cousin of the RNA virus that causes COVID-19 — may aid in the development of antibody “cocktails” to counter viral infection.
By Bill Snyder
April 30, 2020

Initiative to explore COVID-19 outcomes in cancer patients

A multi-institutional consortium led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) is collecting data on cancer patients with COVID-19 as part of a rapid effort to understand the unique effects the coronavirus has on this vulnerable population.
By Tom Wilemon
April 30, 2020

Donating from the heart

Tyler Hubbard of country music’s Florida Georgia Line and his wife, Hayley Hubbard, delivered meals to VUMC last week.
By VUMC News and Communications
April 30, 2020

VUMC adopts new N95 sterilization method

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is switching to hydrogen peroxide vapor for sterilization of the white bulbous N95 facemask-respirators used by health care workers to protect against COVID-19.
By Paul Govern
April 29, 2020

Here’s your “How to wear a mask” guide from an infectious disease specialist

A reminder for regular mask-wearers and a primer for masking novices
By Jessica Pasley
April 29, 2020

Clarksville boy bounces back after COVID-19 infection

After a month of cough, off-and-on fever, not feeling well and isolation, Joseph “Jo Jo” Bostain is back to bouncing on his trampoline, reading Harry Potter books and planting flowers outside his Clarksville home.
By Christina Echegaray