VUMC was ranked as the best hospital in Tennessee in the 2014 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report. In the 2014 annual rankings by the magazine, the following VUMC specialty programs were nationally ranked: Cancer; Ear, Nose and Throat; Nephrology;
Neurology and Neurosurgery; Pulmonology; and Urology. High performing specialty programs were:
Cardiology and Heart Surgery;
Diabetes and Endocrinology; Gastroenterology; Geriatrics; Gynecology; and Orthopaedics.[4] Vanderbilt University was named in Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for 2009. More than 80% of the university's employees work for the Medical Center.[5] The other rankings VUMC has achieved include being listed in the 100 Top Hospitals by Truven
Health Analytics; being listed as among the nation's 100 "Most Wired" hospitals by the American Hospital Association; and listed as one of the "100 Great Hospitals in America" by Becker's Hospital Review.[3] Vanderbilt is also the home of BioVU, one of the world's largest
DNA databanks, which holds more than 170,000 samples and is used to discover new genetic predictors of disease and drug action by scientists worldwide.[3]
Last Updated on: Nov 25, 2024