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CLINICAL FACILITIES

The desirability of providing students with enrichment to their learning experience through affiliations with other health care institutions is recognized by MTSA. Accordingly, ALL students should be prepared to affiliate at a variety of institutions in the Nashville area and elsewhere, to include Ohio in most instances, on a rotating basis. MTSA does not pay student stipends. Dislocation allowances may be provided by affiliations in some distant Senior Elective sites.

Sumner Regional Medical Center

Located about 21 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior rotations – typically 1-month rotations Senior specialty rotation - Regional

Since opening in 1959 as Sumner County Memorial Hospital, SRMC has grown from a facility with just 50 employees and seven physicians to a comprehensive health care leader in the community with over 1,000 employees and 300 physicians. Since 1994, SRMC has served as the flagship hospital of the health care entity, HighPoint Health System. SRMC is accredited by the Joint Commission and is one of the largest non-government employers in Sumner County. Today, SRMC operates as a 155-bed facility and provides quality care in numerous areas, including cancer treatment, cardiac care, same-day surgery, orthopedics, diagnostics, and women’s health and rehabilitation services.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) & Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Located about 15 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior rotations – typically up to 6 month rotations Senior specialty rotations – Pediatric, OB, & Trauma

VUMC is a comprehensive healthcare campus dedicated to patient care, research and biomedical education. Within this system is VUMC, a twin-towered, 658-bed structure supported by the latest systems and technology. Patients are referred to Vanderbilt to receive both routine inpatient care and highly specialized medical treatment and surgical procedures. The Hospital is also home to the region's only Level I Trauma Center as well as the region's only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Constructed in 2004, the freestanding Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and information systems. With 222 beds dedicated to high-level pediatric, subspecialty treatment, and trauma care, the hospital is also a teaching and research facility. Children's Hospital reaches children from Nashville to all Middle Tennessee counties and regions beyond. In 2007, a total of 104,169 of VCH’s patients came from Davidson County. 16,151 patients came from out of state. Patients came from 45 states plus the District of Columbia.

Summit Medical Center (SMC) & Summit Surgery

Located about 10 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior rotations - NONE

Originally a 100-bed facility, Donelson Hospital expanded numerous times in its 21-year history. SMC was constructed and opened in 1994, and is a 188-bed facility today. SMC is a medical and surgical facility known for emergency care, cardiac services, oncology services, orthopedic surgeries, diabetes management and obstetric services. Equally important is the emphasis that Summit places on Outpatient Services. SMC has an Ambulatory Surgery Center, which contains three floors of medical office space. The complex is located at the Summit Outpatient Center. Entrances are available off Old Hickory Blvd & Central Pike.

St. Thomas West

Located about 17 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – typically 2 weeks – 2 month rotations Senior specialty rotation – Cardiac (CVA group) - typically 1-month Rotations with 2 different anesthesia groups – AMG & CVA

The Catholic Daughters of Charity health care ministry reached Nashville in 1898, when Saint Thomas was established. Today, the 541-bed facility, with more than 3,500 employees and 750 physicians on staff, provides adult specialty health care in service to a market area of more than two million residents of Middle Tennessee, Southwestern Kentucky & Northern Alabama.

St. Thomas Mid-Town

Located about 14 miles from MTSA
Junior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior specialty rotations – Cardiac & OB

St. Thomas Mid-Town Hospital is the largest not-for-profit community hospital in Middle Tennessee, licensed for 683 acute and rehab care beds. The main campus covers nearly two million square feet and spans more than six city blocks or 38 acres. St. Thomas Mid-Town Hospital is a member of Saint Thomas Health Services, a faith-based ministry serving Middle Tennessee. less

Southern Tennessee Regional Health System

STRHS-Lawrenceburg, formerly Crockett Hospital, is a 99-bed, acute care facility located in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, 85 miles south of Nashville. They have been providing the best healthcare in Lawrence County and surrounding counties in Southern Middle Tennessee since 1974. They expanded the facility and services in 1991 with the addition of an Outpatient Surgery Unit, a state-of-the-art 24-hour physician-staffed Emergency Department, and an Intensive Care Unit. The hospital opened a 10-bed Physical Rehabilitation Unit in 1997, and a Women's Health Center in 1999. Diagnostic imaging services include in-house MRI, Nuclear Medicine, CT, X-ray, Digital Mammography and Ultrasound. The Rehabilitation Unit provides Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapies. In 2009, a $5.6 million construction was completed which expanded the Emergency Department, Outpatient Surgery Unit and Registration area

Nashville General Hospital at Meharry

Located about 14 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior rotations – typically 1 month rotations General Hospital at Meharry has provided healthcare to Nashville/ Davidson County since 1890, during which time it has grown to the current 125-bed facility. In 1999, General Hospital moved from the original building to the renovated Hubbard Hospital on the Meharry Medical College campus. The name reflects this move and highlights a partnership with Meharry Medical College, one of only four historically black medical colleges in the U.S.

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Located about 370 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – NONE Senior rotations – typically 2-3 month rotations Senior specialty rotation – Pediatric

Nationwide Children’s (NCH) main hospital maintains facilities to care for the most critically ill and injured children. The hospital features 371 inpatient beds, transplant services and pediatric sub-specialists and also is home to the Emergency Department (one of the busiest pediatric emergency departments in the nation), surgery suites and interventional radiology. NCH opened its five-story, $80-million, 160,000-square-foot clinical expansion in the fall of 2006, which includes a total of 14 new, larger and more modern operating rooms that include intra-operative MRI and other state-of-the-art technologies. The campus will have been expanded by more than 2.4 million square feet, making NCH the second largest pediatric hospital and research center in the United States.

Medical Center at Bowling Green & Interventional Pain Services

Located about 59 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – NONE Senior rotations – typically 1 month rotations

Growing from a 35-bed city hospital to a 490-bed regional healthcare system over the past 80+ years, the Medical Center & its affiliated hospitals offer South-central Kentucky the following services: comprehensive cardiac program including open heart surgery, obstetrics and neonatology, cancer treatment and orthopedic services.

Centennial Medical Center

Located about 14 miles from MTSA Junior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior rotations – typically 1-2 month rotations Senior specialty rotations – Cardiac and OB

Centennial has 657 licensed beds and over 1,200 physicians covering a wide variety of specialties. The Centennial Heart Center offers a full complement of cardiac care delivered by more than 50 cardiac specialists. Each year the heart center performs nearly 1,200 heart surgeries and almost 6,000 minimally invasive cardiac procedures.

Ashlea T. Abercrombie

BSN, RN, CCRN, SRNA