Teaching Hospitals & Clinics

The University of Virginia Health Sciences Center

The University of Virginia Health Sciences Center is located in Charlottesville, Virginia (see directions or a map. To find your way around the Health Sciences Center, see layout map.

The University of Virginia Hospital opened in 1901 as a 25-bed facility (see UVA Infirmary. It now serves as one of the major acute-care referral institutions in Central and Western Virginia. About 28,000 people are admitted to the hospital each year, with about 350,000 emergency and outpatient visits (see Medical Facts).

To get to the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, The new University Hospital East opened in March 1989. The eight-story facility has 552 beds and 61 infant bassinets, including a burn unit, a renal unit, a clinical research center, and seven separate intensive care units for the various specialties. The lower floors of the building are primarily for diagnostic areas, the operating suite, and ancillary support and public services. Acute care beds for adult medical/surgical/psychiatric patients, women, and children are housed in the top six floors.

University Hospital West

University Hospital West contains most of the out-patient clinics for the surgical subspecialties such as ophthalmology, otolaryngology, neurosurgery, and plastics, as well as radiation oncology, and neurology. The rest of the hospital contains additional office, research, and teaching space.

The Primary Care Center

The Primary Care Center, a component of the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, opened in January 1980 for use as an ambulatory care center providing patient care in the primary care services of general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and family practice. The Center provides ambulatory care for patients utilizing the services of the Departments of Dermatology, Dentistry, Family Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Support services for the clinics are provided by radiology, clinical laboratories, pharmacology, social work, medical records and nutritional services.

The Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center

The Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center, located on Route 250, West of the Health Sciences Center, is a pediatric/orthopedic special care unit, providing hospital care and innovative programs for "special" children using an interdisciplinary approach. Treatment of chronic diseases and handicapping conditions, many of which may be congenital, are provided for in-patients and out-patients using a variety of multi-disciplinary clinics.

The Cancer Center

The Cancer Center is housed in Hospital West. It is a multi-disciplinary center that allows cancer patients to meet with all of their physicians, including surgeons, oncologists and radiation therapy physicians at one central location.

Western State Hospital

Western State Hospital, is a state psychiatric institute in Staunton, Virginia staffed by University of Virginia attendings and residents. This facility takes care of both chronic and acute patients from throughout the state.

Affiliated Hospitals

In 1972, a major teaching affiliation was initiated providing space for 35-40 students to rotate monthly from Charlottesville to hospitals in the Roanoke Valley. The affiliated program provides third-year clerkships in medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery, utilizing 52 full-time faculty members and 90 practicing physicians who hold faculty appointments. Carilion Roanoke Health System a 700-bed institution, has approximately 20 clerks in all of the above mentioned clerkships throughout the 48 weeks of the academic year, and offers some fourth-year electives as well. There are 18 full-time faculty members based at Roanoke as well as an active group of volunteer faculty members. The Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center, with approximately 750 beds, has a full-time teaching faculty of 35 and approximately 18 clerks on a year-round basis in Surgery, and Psychiatry and offers electives in many specialties. The affiliated hospitals provide housing and meals for students.

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