Overview
The Vanderbilt Department of Anesthesiology provides clinical services at three hospitals located on the same campus:
- Vanderbilt University Hospital
- The Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
- The Nashville Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
These institutions provide an extensive variety of patients and surgical procedures that form a strong foundation for lifelong practitioner education and training, and translational, genomics and health services research.
Vanderbilt University Hospital consists of 6 intensive care units, labor and delivery suites and 60 anesthetizing locations in 6 procedural suites including the VUH Main Operating Suite, The Vanderbilt Clinic Operating Suite, the Vanderbilt Orthopedic Surgicenter, The Women’s Center Operating Suite, the Medical Center East Operating Suite and the Cosmetic Surgicenter. These locations offer a wealth of experience completing approximately 40,000 procedures annually including cardiac surgery, transplantation, robotic surgery, outpatient surgery, trauma and burn management, orthopedic and general surgery.
The Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital consists of pediatric and neonatal intensive care units and a total of 16 operating rooms and procedure allocations completing over 8,000 cases annually over the complete spectrum of pediatric surgical care.
The Nashville Veteran’s Administration Medical Center consists of a surgical intensive care unit and 10 operating rooms in which are completed surgical procedures including cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgery.
Vision Targets
- Become nationally known as leader in high quality innovative care, continuous quality improvement and evidence-based guideline development
- Achieve top score in nationally reported clinical outcomes (SCIP/ASA/Leapfrog)
- Achieve 98% patient satisfaction ‘excellence’ rating
- Achieve 90% surgeon ‘excellence’ rating for perioperative care