Monthly Archives: May 2020
REMINDER: COVID-19 expanded screening guidelines for all VUMC entrances
The expanded process will include self-attestation, via signage, if employees have certain symptoms. At the Workforce Screening Station, please notify the screener if you have had any of the listed new symptoms in the past 7 days. Continue reading
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NEW: This week’s Good Job Report
“Thank you to everyone employed by Vanderbilt. Some of us patients believe in you more than you know.” Continue reading
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Read the transcript from Dr. Balser’s video message
Hi, everyone. As our region begins to reopen businesses, we are entering a new phase of the pandemic. COVID-19 is still with us and remains a major public health challenge. But responsibility is shifting to all of us — as individuals and as institutio… Continue reading
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Message from Dr. Jeff Balser, President and CEO, about adapting and thriving in a new phase of the pandemic
Dr. Jeff Balser discusses finding new ways to live and work while keeping ourselves, and each other, safe, and how VUMC has implemented a host of new safety practices, designed to give us all confidence, while helping millions of patients get the care … Continue reading
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NEW: “Opening up for Ages 65+”: A COVID-19 information webinar featuring VUMC experts set for 3 p.m. today
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Arie Nettles, PhD, James Powers, MD, and Alex Jahangir, MD, will join Grace Smith, Executive Director, Council on Aging of Middle Tennessee, for a webinar about concerns and best practices for people ages 65 and o… Continue reading
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NEW: Culture Survey to open June 8
The 2020 VUMC Culture Survey is scheduled to open June 8 and will close on June 22. This year’s full survey will include the nursing excellence survey, a safety culture survey and an employee engagement survey, as well as five new questions about the M… Continue reading
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NEW: As Frank Rummo died of COVID-19, his family told him they loved him — through an iPad held by his nurse, Maddie Hayes
“If his family had been there, they would have wanted to hold and touch his hand and rub his head, so that’s what I did.” Continue reading
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Liver and Gallbladder Herniation
Question: An elderly 98-year-old woman with a medical history of Alzheimer’s disease, gout, and hypertension presented to the hospital complaining of lower back pain. The patient had no past surgical history. On physical examination, the patient had a … Continue reading
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County Rurality and Socioeconomic Deprivation is Associated with Reduced Survival from Gastric Cancer in the United States
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Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Risk of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Inflammation is a potential mechanism through which diet modulates the onset of inflammatory bowel disease. We analyzed data from 3 large prospective cohorts to determine the effects of dietary inflammatory potential on the risk of developing Crohn’s d… Continue reading
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