Monday, November 23, 2009

Hospitals

It's Just Their Hometown Hospital

Most Vanderbilt patients aren't tough cases from far away

Posted July 10, 2008
Country singers LB & Oakleaf ease the strain of a hospital stay by serenading patients in the trauma, dialysis, and transplant units. They are volunteers with Musicians On Call, a nonprofit that brings live and recorded music to patient bedsides, which Vanderbilt now sponsors.

Country singers LB & Oakleaf ease the strain of a hospital stay by serenading patients in the trauma, dialysis, and transplant units. They are volunteers with Musicians On Call, a nonprofit that brings live and recorded music to patient bedsides, which Vanderbilt now sponsors. (Jim Lo Scalzo for USN&WR)

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