US News & World Report's current issue reports on America's Best Hospitals and features Musicians On Call volunteer artists LB & Oakleaf performing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Read the full article here!

3:51 p.m. Musical moment. Yesterday, a tractor ran over Dennis Caldwell, breaking his pelvis and lacerating his face. Helicoptered to Vanderbilt, about 140 miles from a hospital in Paducah, Ky., Caldwell, 57, is propped up in the trauma ICU awaiting surgery to mend his pelvis. He is attached to many tubes and his face is scraped, but he beams and taps his fingers as two young men with guitars spiritedly knock out a country song at his bedside. "We hope we rocked your day a little bit," says David Oakleaf. LB & Oakleaf, as the two are known professionally, have serenaded patients in the trauma, dialysis, and transplant units for the past couple of hours. They are volunteers with "Musicians On Call," a nonprofit group that brings live and recorded music to patient bedsides. The organization started a Nashville chapter last year, and Vanderbilt sponsors the visits. "It lifted my spirits," says Caldwell. "It gets boring lying in this bed all day long."

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