In Health Affairs Forefront: Laura Keohane opens the health policy history book to unpack what we've learned in the 25 years since the Olmstead decision that changed long-term care. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Mark your calendars: Advanced Practice Grand Rounds Tuesday, September 17th @ 12pm-1pm #APGR2024 Vanderbilt Hem / Onc Vanderbilt Health Children's at VUMC VUMC OAP

✨ new ✨ The countdown is on to Dr. Eiman Jahangir trading the clinic for a rocket. 👨🏻‍🚀🚀 His mission with Blue Origin + MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 will inform two studies, and he'll be gathering data on his heart rate variability and respiratory rate. news.vumc.org/2024/08/26/dre…

Higher thiazide doses shown to reduce kidney stone events news.vumc.org/2024/08/22/hig…

My happy place!

How can caregivers be expected to hold the grief of their patients, and their patients’ families, when they are grieving themselves? That was the question addressed at a recent Vanderbilt Health & Wellness panel discussion. news.vumc.org/2024/08/27/wer…

🗞️ Extreme heat with Eva Rawlings Parker, MD, DTMH, drug prices and Stacie Dusetzina, COVID vaccines, “slapped cheek disease,” the “sloth virus,” germs in toilet plumes, plus an interview with Tamia Potter and other VUMC experts news.vumc.org/2024/08/21/ext…

The Tennessee Community Health Worker Association is dedicated to empowering and supporting CHWs across the state. Their mission is to advance a healthier Tennessee through advocacy & support, while promoting the invaluable contributions of CHWs. Check out their team members!

A new study Ped Emerg Care on dermabond / steri-strips / other absorbable sutures is co-authored by senior biostatistician Cassie Hennessy (MS Vanderbilt University 2020), with colleagues Children's at VUMC and elsewhere journals.lww.com/pec-online/ful… #pediatrics #CosmeticSurgery #EmergencyMedicine

T-1 and had the opportunity to see planets aligning today. While the pic is not great because of light from the moon, the Stellarium app shows you where the planets are’

A fierce patient advocate, physical therapist Sarah Moran is a champion for adaptive sports around @vumchealth and the area. Last year, she helped bring a power soccer clinic to Nashville for both child and adult power wheelchair users. news.vumc.org/2024/03/07/a-f…

This is Sarah Denger, 10-yr #cancerthriver #cancer #cancersurvivor #Hodgkins #Lymphoma #BMT ! She sits on our BOD for our Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center #YoungAdultCancers program. She is truly AMAZING and I am honored to have her guide us on the #patientexperience . momentum.vicc.org/2024/08/cancer…

My VUMC OAP Vanderbilt School of Nursing Vanderbilt University Medical Center #colleagues and I are thrilled to share our recent publication highlighting the use of acupressure to facilitate opioid tapers in the inpatient setting! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Only about 15 hours until Dr. Eiman Jahangir is scheduled to go to space! Read his path to Blue Origin through MoonDAO 🌜🌐🌛 (+ apps to NASA) and what he plans to do after returning to Earth axios.com/local/nashvill… 📸 gallery and more -> news.vumc.org/2024/08/26/dre…

Research from Vanderbilt Health finds that children with development disabilities are less likely than others to receive a gold-standard hearing assessment in the first 3 months of hearing care. bit.ly/3XnInhy #NIDCDgrantee

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Just a little ol' Fluo cell, imaged by confocal. Not trying to do too much, very demure, very mindful.

Vanderbilt Health | September 2024 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion events

Now accepting applications for Community Health Equity Mini-Grants to support innovative community health equity projects in Bedford, Coffee, Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, and Wilson Counties! Check out our website to learn more about this award cycle: vumc.org/communityhealt…