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The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep had not come easily to the young single mother, who was worried about her children’s health as well as her own. So, when she opened the door to find representatives of Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program on her porch, a feeling of relief washed over her. Read More

At a retirement center nestled in the hills of Nashville, a cadre of Vanderbilt nurses have built a community within a community. No single career experience connects them—they’ve been war nurses, flight nurses, ER nurses and floor nurses, as well as teachers, researchers and administrators. Their relationships are woven through their vast web of experience, with their love of nursing at the hub. “Nurses always find each other,” says Charlotte Covington, BSN’69, MSN’89, associate professor of nursing, emerita. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Mobile Vaccine Program visits Nashville’s underserved communities with lifesaving COVID-19 shots Story by Jennifer Plant Johnston The knocking at the front door startled Melissa Williams* as she tried unsuccessfully to nap between jobs. Ever since the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 had taken Nashville into its grip, sleep… Read More