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The freestanding Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt opened on February 8, 2004. Receiving over 375,000 pediatric cases per year, with 15,000 inpatients and 357,000+ treated in the emergency and outpatient departments, the not-for-profit hospital provides pediatric health care regardless of ability to pay.
The Vanderbilt Children's Hospital has been in operation since the 1970s, but was housed in the main Vanderbilt hospital until 2004. Monroe J. Carell, Jr. , former CEO of Central Parking Corporation , raised $79 million for the construction of a new stand-alone facility, including $20 million from his family's personal donations and additional ...
RaDonda L. Vaught was an American legal trial in which former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse after she mistakenly administered the wrong medication that killed a patient in 2017. [1] She was sentenced to three years' probation.
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1959) Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and ...
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Nashville General Hospital. Saint Thomas Midtown. Saint Thomas West. TriStar Centennial Medical Center. Tristar Mount Juliet - Freestanding ER. TriStar Skyline Medical Center. TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center. TriStar Summit Medical Center.
The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee is named in recognition of his financial contribution. In 2001, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. In 2008, he was named the Nashvillian of the Year by the Easter Seals of Tennessee. Personal life
William Robert Frist was born in Nashville, Tennessee. His father, Thomas F. Frist, Jr., is a billionaire who served as the Chairman of the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). His mother, Patricia C. Frist, served as a director of SunTrust Banks from 2000 to 2010. His paternal grandfather, Thomas F. Frist, Sr., was a co-founder of HCA.
Thomas F. Frist Jr. was born on August 12, 1938, to Thomas F. Frist Sr., a prominent internal medicine specialist in Nashville, [1] and Dorothy Cate. Frist has four siblings: physician and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; [6] Dr. Robert A. Frist; Dorothy F. Boensch; and Mary F. Barfield. Frist grew up in Belle Meade, a western ...