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.

Opened in 2011, the five-story, 150,000-square-foot Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center provides state-of-the-art therapies and comprehensive cancer care to patients and their families − all under one roof. In 2012, the new Stem Cell Transplantation Unit opened and is expected to have a significant impact on the advancement of the clinical, educational, and basic science programs in the Division of Hematology-Oncology.

The UVA Transitional Care Hospital is located at the University's Northridge Medical Park, just a few miles from the main University Hospital. This 40-bed facility, with all private rooms, allows for a focus on long-term acute care issues. Staffed by the Department of Medicine Hospitalists, this specialized setting provides a unique learning opportunity for trainees in health care.

The opening of the new North Unit Expansion of the University Hospital in March 2012 has added 72 ICU-capable private patient rooms and education space to the hospital. The UVA Health System recently implemented EpicCare, an electronic medical record (EMR) system in use at more than 50 U.S. academic medical centers. With input from UVA staff members, a selection team representing all clinical areas voted to implement this program due to its usability and comprehensive documentation of a patient’s medical history and treatment.

The new 85,000-square-foot Claude Moore Medical Education Building provides novel technologies and flexible teaching spaces to support innovative medical instruction. The facility includes specialized multimedia classrooms and Learning Studio, 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 keeping pace with quality laboratory space. The 150,000 square-foot MR5 Biomedical Engineering and Medical Science Building and the 102,000 square-foot MR6 Carter-Harrison Research Building house laboratories for more than 700 researchers and technicians in biomedical engineering, pathology, cardiovascular sciences, cancer, immunology, allergies and infectious diseases.