Employee Spotlight
“Dr. Boehm, I believe you are my biological father.” A new son, a new daughter, and the letter that brought more love into a family.
By Wayne Wood
Frank Boehm was settling into retirement when things changed: “I once had three children and nine grandchildren. Now, I have five children and 11 grandchildren."
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Employee Spotlight
On a whim, Kaylon Bruner-Tran checked her family’s DNA. It led to family she didn’t know she had and a mother-son reunion after 50 years.
By Emily Stembridge
"Cultures can be very different, nothing is more powerful than family.”
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Patient Spotlight
Tears of joy, tears of sorrow — College sweethearts, a COVID unit wedding, and a love story that ended too soon
By Wayne Wood
The inside story of how VUMC's COVID unit staff pulled together to arrange a wedding, and a reminder that not every love story has a happy ending
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First person
My daughter was born in the middle of the pandemic. She is going to get very tired of hearing that story when she’s older.
By Matt Batcheldor
I can already picture Natalie rolling her eyes when she's 16.
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