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url: 'https://dxpr.com/case-studies/vumc'
title: 'VUMC: five medical department sites. Zero developer bottleneck.'
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date: '2026-10-06T07:58:06+00:00'
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summary: 'The outcome:five departments publishing'
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

# VUMC: five medical department sites. Zero developer bottleneck.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center runs DXPR Builder across five department websites, from internal medicine to dermatology, giving clinical faculty and staff the tools to publish without IT support.

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[See how they did it ↓](#story)

 Care teams at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Home to the region's Level I Trauma Center and a top-ranked children's hospital.

 Sector[Healthcare](/taxonomy/term/996)

LocationNashville, Tennessee, United States

PlatformDrupal 9

InfrastructurePantheon

 ## The outcome:
five departments publishing
without IT delays.

Vanderbilt's medical departments publish patient information, faculty profiles, and research updates without waiting for the central web team. Clinicians and communications staff manage their own pages.

306

### Clinical topics, one handbook.

26 specialties maintained by the physicians who rely on them.

4×

### Faster preparation of clinical pages.

Reusable page structures give editors more time to maintain the handbook’s content.

*Illustrative estimate.*

5 sites

### One authoring tool across VUMC.

VIMBook, research centers and medical departments use DXPR within Vanderbilt’s Drupal estate.

## A medical center where every department needs its own voice.

Five departments, one web team, and patients looking for answers.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's departments each serve different patient populations with specialized information. Dermatology needs condition guides. Emergency medicine needs protocol pages. Internal medicine needs faculty and research directories.

With a centralised web team handling all layout requests, updates took days. Department communications staff could edit text, but any layout change required a ticket. Patient-facing information fell behind.

Let each department publish. Keep the medical center brand. Maintain accessibility.

## Visual editing.
Clinical-grade consistency.

VUMC deployed DXPR Builder across its department sites, giving communications staff visual editing tools within the university's brand framework. DXPR Theme enforces the VUMC visual identity; editors build pages without risking brand or accessibility standards.

Department pages update in real time. Faculty join, clinics open, research publishes: the website keeps pace with the medical center.

See how different VUMC departments publish independently on the same platform.

- [ 01 · Medicine ](#vmc-wf-medicine)
- [ 02 · Dermatology ](#vmc-wf-dermatology)
- [ 03 · Emergency ](#vmc-wf-emergency)

#### 01 · Medicine

#### 02 · Dermatology

#### 03 · Emergency

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> Our department staff update pages themselves now. The web team finally has time for platform improvements instead of layout tickets.

## Managing content across medical departments?

Bring your Drupal platform, accessibility requirements, and department publishing needs. We will walk through how DXPR fits your health system.

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