Employee Spotlight
Midwives saving lives
By Emily Stembridge
The mother of the groom was choking at a wedding reception. A person needed CPR on a plane. Two Vanderbilt midwives stepped up.
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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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VUMC in the Community
Katrina Robertson went from death’s door to a full life. Her story is one of thousands from the first 25 years of the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic
By Wayne Wood
The VCCC opened its doors 25 years ago when AIDS was fatal and hope was rare. Today the clinic serves thousands of patients and is an international model in the treatment of people with HIV.
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Employee Spotlight
Patty Hofstetter came to Vanderbilt as a teenager. She never left — until now.
By Matt Batcheldor
A conversation with the 41-year veteran nurse upon her retirement.
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VUMC in the Community
An Army doctor’s appeal: “People in Iraq need medical books — can you help?” The response from Vanderbilt was overwhelming.
By Jessica Pasley
VUMC gastroenterologist Terence "T.A." Smith wanted to help an Iraqi colleague at a small clinic. Vanderbilt donors responded with dozens of boxes of books.
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Employee Spotlight
Julie Foss departs the Medical Intensive Care Unit for the last time
By Matt Batcheldor
The "proud Vanderbilt nurse's" life's work, and her passion, are the patients and the employees of MICU.
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Employee Spotlight
Bill and Genie met at VUMC in 1983. The proposal was at Kroger. A wedding ring fell over a cliff. They are still in love.
By Tavia Smith
“She was really sweet and 34 years later, she’s still just as sweet,” Bill says. “It was meant to be,” Genie adds.
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Employee Spotlight
“My dream was to be a nurse, taking care of critically ill children”
By Matt Batcheldor
Jade Forlidas started at Vanderbilt as a nursing student in 1969; after a storied career, she has retired — but her daughter carries on as a LifeFlight nurse
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