Wellness Rooms are available to Vanderbilt faculty, graduate students, postdocs, staff, and visitors. The rooms can be used for lactation, temporary hoteling, and stress-reducing meditation. The School of Medicine Basic Sciences provides two spaces, 715 PRB and 6132 MRB III, to meet these needs.
Both rooms feature comfortable chairs, ottomans, Medela breast pumps with sanitizing bags and cleansers, and monitors that you can use for music, watching your favorite show, or projecting your computer if you need to work. Rooms also have refrigerators for the temporary storage of breast milk, microwaves for sanitization, kitchenettes with sinks, dimmable lighting, mirrors, and nearby bathrooms.
Please note that new mothers have priority to reserve these rooms. Visitors, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff must be approved for their requested time.
To gain regular access privileges to a Wellness Room, lactating individuals should first fill out this REDCap request form. They will receive a confirmation and additional information once approved. Following this one-time approval process, nursing/lactating individuals will receive access to an Outlook calendar, at which point they can book the room if it’s open as needed. Non-lactating users can request single or multiple reservations by filling out the REDCap form but will need to submit the form again once those reservations pass/expire.
For questions, please email the VBS FIRM Office (VBS-FIRM@vanderbilt.edu).
