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Oatey | Case Study | July 2026 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville | QuickDrain

For patient room showers with resinous poured flooring, the project team chose Oatey’s QuickDrain ProLine linear drains, customized to fit the floor system, outlet location, and below-slab connections.

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE — Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Jim Ayers Tower, originally known during construction as the LINK Building, was planned as a major expansion of Vanderbilt University Hospital. Vanderbilt Medicine described the project as the hospital’s largest facility expansion to date: a 15-level, approximately 470,000-square-foot tower designed to add inpatient and clinical capacity while creating a new front door to the hospital.