Growth & Finance

June 26, 2024

State of the Department of Medicine address highlights tremendous growth 

Department of Medicine clinicians see patients in 19 counties across Middle Tennessee as well as the surrounding region. There were 86,096 outpatient visits for fiscal year 2024, an increase of more than 25,000 visits over fiscal year 2023.

By Nancy Humphrey
June 6, 2024

Lakmini Kidder named Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Revenue Officer

In her new capacity, Kidder will assume responsibility for overseeing all aspects of VUMC’s integrated revenue cycle, encompassing hospitals, clinics, the Vanderbilt Medical Group and Vanderbilt Integrated Providers.

June 6, 2024

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s clinicians will staff the Cancer Center at Cookeville Regional Medical Center

Through this agreement Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and advanced practice nurses will be Cookeville Regional’s exclusive providers of cancer services.

By Tom Wilemon
May 30, 2024

Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital: 5 years

To honor VWCH’s 45 years of service, and their fifth as Vanderbilt Health, C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Health System Officer, and VWCH president Scott McCarver presented a State of the Hospital address to the Lebanon Wilson County Chamber of Commerce

By Danny Bonvissuto
May 7, 2024

VUMC leases former AT&T Center in Brentwood for future development

VUMC has a successful history of property redevelopment with its conversion of a former shopping mall into Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks and the redevelopment of a former grocery into Vanderbilt Health Belle Meade, a now bustling outpatient surgery and multispecialty clinic.

By John Howser
Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, spoke about the Medical Center’s growth during the Spring Leadership Assembly. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
May 2, 2024

VUMC Growth Strengthens Communities

Recent expansions in locations, capacity and business lines underscore how VUMC is navigating fast-paced population growth and the financial headwinds facing health systems across the country.

By Holly Fletcher
April 24, 2024

Go behind the scenes at Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories. Hear what employees have to say.

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center News & Communications crew caught up with people working at the new laboratory in MetroCenter.
By Jill Clendening and Erin O. Smith
April 16, 2024

Unsung Zeros: How biostatistics advances personalized health in the era of smart data

VUMC is acrawl with statistical design, bias detection and analysis that’s recognized with $532 million in federal and nonfederal research support.
By Paul Govern and Bill Snyder
April 4, 2024

Q+A with Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH

Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH, answers questions about the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health.
By Jill Clendening
March 18, 2024

First baby born in the new Labor and Delivery Rooms on 4 North

The new rooms are the latest in a series of obstetrical enhancements, including the Vanderbilt University Hospital Labor and Delivery Entrance, that provide more space for the increased volume of mothers delivering at VUH.
By Danny Bonvissuto
March 11, 2024

School of Medicine in top 10 in NIH funding: survey

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, which received $527.7 million in direct and indirect NIH grant support in FY23, has been among the top 10 U.S. medical schools in NIH funding for six of the last 10 years.
By Bill Snyder
March 5, 2024

New Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories facility, renovations will benefit patients

A new Vanderbilt University Medical Center clinical laboratory facility is open for business following a relocation to a 110,000 square-foot facility in MetroCenter. The new lab is located approximately five miles from VUMC’s main Nashville campus.
By Jill Clendening
February 21, 2024

Renovated Urology clinic in TVC features expanded services

Vanderbilt Urology’s newly renovated TVC clinic features a slightly larger and much more efficient space, nitrous oxide in the procedure rooms, a new high definition C-Arm X-ray machine and a urodynamics unit, thereby expanding the range of procedures that can be performed in clinic without having to go to the operating room.
By Craig Boerner