2. We think of our mission as the seat of a three-legged stool.
Each leg is vital to our overall mission.

3. Healing
Or patient care is one of the legs holding up the stool

4. Healing… over 39,000 inpatients in the hospital annually
over 824, visits in the outpatient clinics
over 76, emergency room visits

5. Healing… Vanderbilt Home Care Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Speech & Hearing Center
Stallworth
Rehabilitation Hospital

6. Teaching
Is another leg holding up the stool

7. VUMC School of Nursing 27th out of 201 schools
Teaching…
VUMC Medical School ranks th out of 125 schools, and is in the top 3 for student satisfaction
VUMC School of Nursing th out of 201 schools

8. Research
Is the third leg holding up the stool

9. Research… Awards projected at $238 million
Among top medical centers in the country
NIH funded $175 million in fiscal year 2003

10. Just as the stool would tip without all three legs, the
Mission of VUMC cannot be fulfilled without
healing/patient care, education and research.