Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt Health is a growing health system anchored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is one of the largest and most prominent academic medical centers in Southeast, with seven hospitals and more than 180 clinics across Tennessee and neighboring states.

Based in Nashville, Vanderbilt Health is a resource for patients and clinicians throughout Tennessee and beyond to provide advanced care, from the simplest condition to the most complex and rare illnesses and injuries.

Through a network of regional hospitals and clinics, we offer the best, right care in the best, right setting – which may be on our 21st Avenue campus in Nashville or increasingly is in communities closer to home.

A leading employer

Vanderbilt Health employs nearly 40,000 nurses, physicians, researchers, trainees and more, making it the largest non-government employer in Middle Tennessee.

Exceptional care close to home

Vanderbilt Health has 1,741 licensed hospital beds across 7 hospitals:

• Vanderbilt University Hospital

• Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

• Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital

• Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital

• Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

• Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital

• Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital

By the numbers

• 3.2 million patient visits

• 194,000 telehealth visits

• 79,000 surgeries

• 78,000 hospital discharges

• 204,000 emergency department visits

• 5,000 Lifeflight air transports

• 2,000 employed physicians

• More than 1,200 resident physicians

• $952 million in charity care and other community benefits

(All fiscal 2023)

Caring spirit and distinct capabilities

Vanderbilt Health provides our community with many unique and specialized services including:

• The region's Level 1 Trauma Center and Burn Center

• Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, with a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit

• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the region

A pioneering transplant center

Vanderbilt Health performed a record 809 organ transplants during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, 760 of them in adults and 49 in children.

Adult programs in heart, lung, liver and kidney transplantation also set individual program records.

• 150 heart transplants

• 90 lung transplants

• 180 liver transplants

• 333 kidney transplants

Monroe Carell set a new record in pediatric liver transplants, with 26 performed during FY24. The pediatric transplant team also performed 14 kidney transplants and 9 heart transplants.

Nationally Ranked Care and Discovery

World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals.

• VUMC offers more than 100 residency and fellowship programs and trains more than 1,000 resident physicians each year.

• VUMC is among the top 10 centers in the country as measured by highly competitive, peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. In FY23, total NIH grant funding awarded to VUMC investigators totalled $527.7 million.

• VUMC is consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals. We're nationally ranked by U.S. News and World Report in multiple adult and pediatric specialties for treating the most complex cases. In addition, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital are rated among the nation's best by the Leapfrog Group.

• VUMC has earned four consecutive Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for nursing care.

• Through the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, VUMC works with more than 60 hospitals and 5,000 clinicians across Tennessee and five neighboring states to share best practices and bring value-driven and cost-effective health care to the Mid-South.