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History of Vanderbilt Medical Center

Vanderbilt University Medical Center(VUMC) begin in 1874 when the school of Medicine, which had been part of the University of Nashville since its founding in 1851 when it was incorporated into Vanderbilt University. VUMC is a collection of several hospitals and clinics, as well as well as the schools of medicine and nursing. Vanderbilt Medical Center has a staff of 19,600 (Vanderbilthealth, 2016). Vanderbilt University Medical Center operates the only Level One Trauma Cen-ter, the only Lever Four Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the only Level Three Burn unit in the Middle Tennessee Region. Each of the levels represents the highest in its field. VUMC also offers an organ transplantation center. Vanderbilt’s first kidney transplant was in 1962; since then there have been more than 3,000 kidneys transplanted at Vanderbilt. VUMC also had more than 600 liver transplants and 600 heart and
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Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the Transplant Center is part if the Vanderbilt Medical Center and Vanderbilt University campus. Organized 25 years ago by Dr, William H.Frist and Dr. J. Harold Helderman, the VTC is a full-service, multidisciplinary transplant center specializing in heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas and stem cell transplantation. Staff of the VTC recognizes the value of treating and supporting each transplant patient as a whole person. The Vanderbilt doctor, nurses, and staff have always focused not only one aspect of transplantation but the whole process, from basic research to patient education (Vanderbilthealth, 2016).

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