Cheryl Majors works as an assistant on the faculty of the School of Medicine. She works in the Department of Pediatrics, in the Division of Neonatology. Her job is to coordinate the neonatal outreach program.
Neonatology works with newborn babies.
At Vanderbilt there is a neonatal intensive care unit for babies that are bom premature, and who are very sick. Vanderbilt Children's Hospital is one of 5 centers that Tennessee has identified as high risk neonatal. The transport unit has a designated ambulance that goes to get sick babies and bring them to Vanderbilt. The transport unit is needed when a premature or sick baby is born in a smaller hospital that doesn't have a neonatal intensive care unit. In order for the baby to be cared for, it must be transported to Vanderbilt.