The UVA Medical Center
The UVA Health System strives to continually expand in all of our missions – patient care, education and research. To support this, we are actively engaged in improving our physical facilities, recruiting and retaining excellent faculty and staff, expanding our clinical programs, strengthening our recognized centers of excellence, and streamlining our processes for health care delivery.
Facilities Expansion
We are nearing completion of a four-year major hospital expansion project to improve facilities for patient care. A new 6-story expansion wing houses clinical and support space for:
• 14 new Operating Rooms with new laminar airflow system and "Smart OR" technology
• Heart Center clinics, invasive and non-invasive procedure areas
• Interventional Radiology services
• Clinical Laboratories
On the horizon are new facilities that will allow us to expand the services offered by the UVA National Cancer Institute Cancer Center and our UVA Children's Hospital.
A new 85,000-square-foot medical education building provides new technologies and flexible teaching spaces to support innovative medical instruction, including training in emergency medicine for students, residents, and state emergency medical technicians. The facility will include specialized multimedia classrooms, video-equipped exam rooms for analyzing student-patient interactions, and a Medical Simulation Training Center for honing skills.
NIH support for medical research at UVA has grown significantly, and we are working to keep pace with quality laboratory space. A new 150,000-square-foot research building (MR5) houses laboratories for more than 400 researchers in biomedical engineering, pathology, and the cardiovascular sciences. Groundbreaking has occurred for MR6 which will provide space for another 300 researchers and technicians in fields including cancer, immunology, allergies and infectious diseases.
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"The School of Medicine and the Medical Center represent the best of Mr. Jefferson's intentions that the University be a power and service for the public good. Building on the national and international reputation of the University and its medical expertise, I hope to continue that tradition in medical student and housestaff education, enhance the rich basic science tradition of the institution and facilitate translation of our medical discoveries to applications for our patients and the community at large." |
Education & Research
Through constant innovation and collaboration, the UVA School of Medicine and the Health System strive for continued excellence in our educational, research and community outreach programs. Some examples of recent and current initiatives
- Center for Health Disparities and a disparities fellowship in the MPH Program
- Center for Consumer Health Education
- Center for Humanism in Medicine
- Development of new curriculum and models for education in the School of Medicine
- Increased NIH clinical research funding
- Development of improved infrastructure for researchers through a clinical trials database, grants and interim funding, and integrated web resources
Health Care Delivery
UVA leaders, faculty, and staff work together in interdisciplinary, collaborative teams to meet targets for improving access and quality in the health care services we provide. Some current initiatives include:
- Clinic Metrics for scheduling of initial outpatient visit appointments, wait time to exam room and wait time to provider
- Focus on patient Discharges by Noon to facilitate admission and postop placements
- Bed Center software for organizing admission and transfer of patients
- Patient Transition Unit for pending admissions and discharges
- Ongoing review to support addition of new, clinically differentiated programs
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"We need to link everything we do very closely to the provision of care. We have excellent researchers, and we have excellent caregivers and clinicians. Bringing those pieces closer together presents exciting opportunities." |
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