{"id":1627,"date":"2018-02-28T18:58:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2021-08-11T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:39:25","slug":"dollys-childrens-hospital-visit-highlights-strong-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/dollys-childrens-hospital-visit-highlights-strong-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital visit highlights strong ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During her visit to Monroe Carell Jr. Children\u2019s Hospital at Vanderbilt, country music legend Dolly Parton took part in an on-air interview at Seacrest Studios that was simulcast to four other children\u2019s hospitals in the United States. Photo by Jason Davis\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To celebrate the release of her first children\u2019s album, \u201cI Believe in You,\u201d legendary country music singer-songwriter Dolly Parton visited Monroe Carell Jr. Children\u2019s Hospital at Vanderbilt in October 2017 and performed songs from the album for patients, their families and hospital staff.<\/p>\n

Parton specifically wrote the song \u201cChemo Hero\u201d to honor one of her nieces, Hannah Dennison, who was treated for leukemia at Children\u2019s Hospital for four years, beginning in 1993.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy niece Hannah was treated for leukemia here when she was 4. She\u2019s 29 now. She\u2019s a picture of hope, and she\u2019s my little Chemo Hero, which is one of the songs on the album I wrote for her. It was just a special day to be here at Vanderbilt because everybody took such good care of her when she was here,\u201d Parton said.<\/p>\n

After leading the crowd in a sing-along performance of \u201cChemo Hero,\u201d Parton surprised the crowd by announcing a $1 million gift to Children\u2019s Hospital \u201cin honor of my niece Hannah, my sister Rachel, Hannah\u2019s dad, Richard, and Dr. Naji Abumrad (Parton\u2019s Vanderbilt physician).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was a very wonderful day for us at the hospital,\u201d said Meg Rush, MD, Chief of Staff and Executive Medical Director of Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cDolly has a special personal connection with the work we do every day because of her niece Hannah. Her experience, combined with Dolly\u2019s true passion to bring self-belief and hope to children through her music, truly came to life as Dolly visited the children in our infusion clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the release of her first children\u2019s album, \u201cI Believe in You,\u201d legendary country music singer-songwriter Dolly Parton visited Monroe Carell Jr. Children\u2019s Hospital at Vanderbilt in October 2017 and performed songs from the album for patients, their families and hospital staff. Parton specifically wrote the song \u201cChemo Hero\u201d to honor one of her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-around-the-medical-center","category-vm-winter-2018"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcDnub-qf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}