Employee Spotlight
Patients’ stories motivate Lizzie Simonds, the only paramedic working in VUMC’s COVID unit
By Wayne Wood
She remembers one man who was scared and couldn't rest: “I spent 45 minutes…sitting next to him, holding his hand so he felt safe enough to try to sleep for a little bit."
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DAISY Award
Fourth quarter DAISY Awards honor extraordinary nurses
By Matt Batcheldor
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries
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Employee Spotlight
VUMC front-line workers receive special delivery
By Kristin Smart
Cards from local schoolchildren bring special greetings, including "You deserve 100 million candy canes."
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Employee Spotlight
Images of hope: A look at the arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines at VUMC
By Wayne Wood
Photographs by Donn Jones, Erin O. Smith and Susan Urmy
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DAISY Award
Third quarter DAISY Awards honor four extraordinary nurses
By Matt Batcheldor
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries.
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Employee Spotlight
Vanderbilt ER nurse receives wedding surprise from “Say Yes to the Dress”
By Leigh MacMillan
Holly Beth Jones will receive a wedding gown from the show, which is honoring front-line health care workers
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Employee Spotlight
COVID unit nurse speaks from the heart about the impact of the disease and the importance of masking
By Matt Batcheldor
At the mayor's press conference Cody Hamilton told of the toll COVID takes on those who have the disease, and those who care for them
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DAISY Award
Second quarter 2020 DAISY Awards honor four extraordinary nurses
By Matt Batcheldor
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries.
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Patient Spotlight
Two brushes with death. Two life-saving Vanderbilt physicians. Then, two children.
By Matt Batcheldor
"Vanderbilt will always be a place that we hold dear for everything they have done for us,” says Mary Beth Ballard Murray.
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