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April 7, 2011

Beam Signing celebrates expansion at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

By VUMC News and Communications

May 28, 2010

Expansion planned for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt University is announcing plans to build an expansion to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. This first-phase expansion will add additional acute, neonatal intensive care and medical-surgical beds, and also allow for increased space to house a growing number of physician scientists who care for Middle Tennessee’s youngest patients.

By VUMC News and Communications

June 8, 2006

First Adult Cancer Patient in Nashville to Receive Stem Cell Transplant from Umbilical Cord Blood at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he’ll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history.

By VUMC News and Communications

February 16, 2005

First-time surgery may save newborn from bowel transplant

The newborn baby of a Fort Campbell soldier family has become the first to receive a new type of surgery at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications

November 8, 2004

Infant Twins’ Sudden Illness Leads to Need for Dual Heart Transplants at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Four-month-old identical twins Abigail and Shea Patrick were miracle babies. Their parents tried to have children for years.

By VUMC News and Communications

May 30, 2003

VUMC receives top international ranking for heart transplant trial

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been ranked No. 3 worldwide in enrollment for an international trial testing the efficacy of a new immunosuppressant drug for use in heart transplant patients.