“I want him to have a bright future, and I thank God for putting Michele in my path so my baby can have that.”
This teacher got a life-saving heart transplant. So did her student. What are the odds?
"I love video appointments! It’s the safest way right now."
Neonatal nurse practitioner Wendy Araya, a Feb. 29 baby herself, offers advice to the latest leaplings
His beloved Carroll Academy Jaguars and Lady Jaguars honor him with a message on their shirts: "Donate Life."
The pair of complex surgeries took 13 hours. When he woke up, he felt like a new person. Since 2011, there have been 38 liver-kidney transplants at VUMC, helping establish Vanderbilt as one of the leading sites in the country for multiple-organ transplants.
Puzzles, mazes, coloring pages and other fun help pass the time
Kyle Mullicane's is the only medical story you will read today that features a hallucination taking place in a Vegas steakhouse.
“It has made me ecstatically happy to watch him get better,” his mom said.
Sometimes emergencies happen – sick kids or school closings – that cause you to need backup childcare. VUMC offers employees a benefit through Care.com that gives you several options for backup care. With the Care.com benefit, VUMC employees receive up to 20 days (per fiscal year — July 1 through June 30) of subsidized backup childcare at home or at local, vetted childcare centers. Click here to learn more.
If you are enrolled in the Aetna Plus or Aetna Select VUMC health plans, you can pay zero out-of-pocket costs for pre- and post-natal care, certain spinal and joint surgeries and cochlear implants through the MyHealth Bundles program. Click here for more information.
