Contest
Pets of VUMC 2023 — Collection #3: Duos, part 1
By Wayne Wood
Sonny & Cher. Sam & Dave. Simon & Garfunkel. Great duos! But don't forget Milly & Tilly, Snoopy & RuRu, and Rowdy & Lulu.
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Elevate Team Award
The MyHealth Bundles Team transforms and innovates health care to create a better patient experience.
By Diana Duren
“Now I can do everything. I can truly enjoy my grandchildren and go to all their sports activities without fearing walking up and down bleachers...I feel like my life is back.”
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Credo Award Winner
Flavia Atkins brings caring and leadership to the patients she guides as a health care navigator
By Leigh MacMillan
She takes pride not only in guiding patients on their health care journeys but also in serving as a resource who is always available to her fellow navigators
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Five Pillar Leader Award
Five Pillar Award recipient Gaye Smith on meetings, respect and one of her proudest accomplishments in 19 years at VUMC
By Danny Bonvissuto
“Respecting every human is essential to being a good human and a good manager."
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Patient Spotlight
Holding hands one more time: Compassion and collaboration allow couple to spend the most precious time together
By Jill Clendening
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.
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Credo Award Winner
For VUMC materials management supervisor Kelvin Devane, surgical patients’ needs are top of mind
By Nancy Humphrey
"I don’t know these people on the table having surgery, but it’s somebody’s dad, somebody’s mom, somebody’s child. I just want to help take care of them.”
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Contest
Pets of VUMC 2023 — Collection #2: Pets and their people, part 2
By Wayne Wood
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant
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Credo Award Winner
Employing her background in counseling, Shannon Ontiveros brings compassion, advocacy and confidence to the Office of Faculty Affairs
By Bill Snyder
Shannon Ontiveros, director of the Office of Faculty Affairs and director of the Faculty Training…
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VUMC in the Community
Grad student Creea Shannon seeks to inspire young people to pursue careers in science
By Cherie Saffold
She doesn’t want students thinking about careers to be as unaware of STEM fields as she was as a girl
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