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How Middle Tennessee colleges should be preparing for potential monkeypox outbreaks

By Alexis Marshall

September 6, 2022

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Though monkeypox is rare and not as contagious as the coronavirus, there’s still opportunities for it to spread on a college campus through sharing a dorm room, hookups and even contact sports.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Higher Education, Middle Tennessee State University, monkeypox, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt makes certain policy changes to ‘mitigate’ harm from Tennessee’s all-out abortion ban

By Blake Farmer

August 26, 2022

Vanderbilt University Medical Center says it is changing some policies in order to “mitigate” concerns about health and equity created by Tennessee’s abortion ban.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

With Huntington’s Disease, renewed hope for a cure draws more interest in testing at Vanderbilt

By Blake Farmer

August 15, 2022

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Promising cures for Huntington’s Disease have resulted in more genetic testing at Vanderbilt’s clinic, which serves a multi-state region. The rare neurological disease is often viewed as a death sentence, which scares people from even wanting to know.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Huntington's Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

To fill clinical roles, Vanderbilt begins training truck drivers, cleaning workers and other existing staff

By Blake Farmer

May 30, 2022

Clifford Johnson
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Vanderbilt has more than 100 openings for medical assistants, with people leaving all the time. So the health system put out the offer to its 29,000 employees: We’ll pay you while you train.

Filed Under: Business, Education, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: hospitals, nurses, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

No prison time for RaDonda Vaught, former Vanderbilt nurse convicted of fatal drug error

By Brett Kelman of KFF Health NewsandBlake Farmer

May 13, 2022

RaDonda Vaught protest

RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error and whose trial became a rallying cry for nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes, will not be required to spend any time in prison.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: medical error, nurses, RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

RaDonda Vaught sentencing has nurses nationwide on edge

By Blake Farmer

May 12, 2022

On Friday morning, former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught learns whether she will go to jail for a deadly medical error. And nurses from around the country plan to protest outside the courthouse.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Glenn Funk, RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville purchases Global Mall site for over $43 million, on a pinky promise with Vanderbilt University Medical Center

By Ambriehl Crutchfield

April 20, 2022

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The former Hickory Hollow mall hasn’t brought significant money in for at least a decade.  This week, the Metro Council decided to purchase portions of the Global Mall site for $44 million.  

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Hickory Hollow Mall, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, VUMC

As a former Vanderbilt nurse awaits sentencing for a medical error, her conviction sparks widespread worry

By Blake Farmer

April 14, 2022

RaDonda Vaught
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The name RaDonda Vaught is now well-known by nurses nationwide. Her negligent homicide conviction for a medication error is weighing heavy on a weary profession.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Glenn Funk, nurses, nursing, RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Hickory Hollow joins mall-to-medicine transitions, which accelerated through the pandemic

By Blake Farmer

April 12, 2022

VUMC One Hundred Oaks
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Hickory Hollow Mall — 1.1 million square feet of retail space in southeast Nashville — was once Tennessee’s largest shopping center. Now, the mammoth complex is joining the ranks of malls making a transition into medicine.

Filed Under: Business, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Hickory Hollow Mall, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, VUMC

Why nurses are raging and quitting after the RaDonda Vaught verdict

By Brett Kelman of KFF Health News

April 5, 2022

Vaught verdict reaction

Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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