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view archived pressStudent-run health clinic to hold fundraising 5K
InsideVandy.com (4/18/2010)
Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and members of the Nashville community are expected to turn out May 1 for the annual Shade Tree Trot, a 5K run through the Vanderbilt campus to benefit a medical clinic run by students in the School of Medicine.
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VUCast (4/16/2010)
Shade Tree program bolsters prenatal care optionsVanderbilt Reporter (1/8/2010)
When 27-year-old Dayana Moran heard about the Shade Tree Clinic's new prenatal care service she signed up right away. "I didn't know how I would get prenatal care until a friend told me about this," Moran said.
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Free prenatal program sees strong demandThe Tennessean (12/18/2009)
Dayana Moran believes in getting early pregnancy care, but without health insurance she wasn't sure how she would pay for it. The 27-year-old mother of two is expecting her third child. Her husband works, though he doesn't get health benefits. "The economy is not very good right now, so it's hard," said Moran, a Nashville resident. "One of my friends told me about a clinic that was free."
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Save the Bobcats
Vanderbilt House Organ (November 2009)
When staffers at VUMC's Shade Tree Clinic heard that the neighborhood football team, the East Nashville Bobcats, was in financial trouble, the students and faculty jumped in to help.
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