Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories Tour

Tour the growing healthcare system Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories, the largest non-government employer in Middle Tennessee. 

Note: Personal identification is required for this tour.

Overview

Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories is a 110,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility designed to improve laboratory service levels for VUMC clinicians and team members. This facility will support clinical and education innovation and the growth of its enterprise clinically, operationally and financially.

Here are a few fun facts you'll learn about on this tour:

• The Core Lab automation line (Roche) supports minimal manual processing of specimens. This automation line has the first vertical lift in the United States. There are only a few in Europe.
• The microbiology automation line (CoPan) is one of the few automation systems in the U.S.
• The “Hollywood Squares” sorting device receives (logs in) specimens into its laboratory information system and lights up the box where the specimen should go. This allows people from other areas of the laboratory to help during short staffing situations.
• The automation cart for the delivery of specimens is commonly used at Amazon. This cart is programmed to go to each section of the laboratory with specimens and reduces the waste of “steps.”
• With the 5-S appropriate labeling, there is nothing extra in the work area.
• The company hopes to have the inventory management system up and running by May.
• The setup will include visual cues in multiple areas, like if the instrumentation is up and running or down for maintenance, if the specimens are in centrifuges, and if the specimens are in dry ice bins.

Company

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the largest comprehensive research, teaching and patient care health system in the Mid-Southern region.

Represented as Vanderbilt Health, its growing health system includes the leading adult and children's hospitals in the Southeast. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the health system sees over 3 million patient visits annually.

The company is honored to be a resource for patients and clinicians throughout Tennessee and beyond to provide advanced care for complex and rare conditions. Vanderbilt Health's mission is to personalize the patient experience through its caring spirit and distinctive capabilities.

The largest non-government employer in Middle Tennessee, this growing health system has 1,709 licensed hospital beds across seven hospitals, a workforce of 40,000, and an expanding footprint in towns and communities across the region, with more than 200 clinics and three community-based hospitals. Its robust research enterprise ranks among the top 10 centers in the country as measured by highly competitive, peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. https://www.vumc.org/main/home