Vanderbilt Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine has established a program to improve unplanned care.
The Program in Unplanned Care is supported by a $1.3 million endowment from the Vanderbilt Department of Emergency Medicine and funding from the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research.
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