VCU Medical Center
| Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center | |
| Motto | Every Day, A New Discovery |
|---|---|
| Type | Public university |
| Established | 1838 |
| Endowment | US 344.6 million |
| Dean | Peter Buckley, M.D. |
| Location | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Campus | Urban, 52.4 acres (212,000 m²) |
| Website | www |
The VCU Medical Center is Virginia Commonwealth University's medical campus located in downtown Richmond, Virginia in the Court End neighborhood. The VCU Medical Center used to be known as the Medical College of Virginia, which merged with the Richmond Professional Institute in 1968 to create Virginia Commonwealth University. In the 1990s, an authority controlling MCV Hospitals was created called the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Authority. In 2004, the name of this authority was changed to VCU Health System and the MCV Hospitals and surrounding campus were branded VCU Medical Center. This authority controls the employees and real estate occupied by the five schools within the VCU Medical Center. It was at this time that MCV Campus moniker was created. West Hospital houses various clinical, administrative and support services of the hospitals of VCU Medical Center; clinical, academic and administrative units of the School of Medicine; and academic and administrative units of the School of Allied Health Professions.
Today the VCU Medical Center is composed of the hospitals and five schools and is located on the MCV Campus, adjacent to the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park.
VCU Medical Center has 865 Licensed Beds with a total of 85,700 Emergency Department visits in 2012. There were 558,385 Outpatient Clinic Visits and a total of 20,506 Surgeries.
School of Allied Health Professions
School of Nursing
School of Medicine
School of Pharmacy
The First 125 Years of the Medical College of Virginia by Thelma Vaine Hoke provides history of MCV from 1838 to 1963.
On December 1, 1837, the president and trustees of Hampden–Sydney College created a medical department to be located at Richmond.
Founders of the college
Dr. Richard Lafon Bohannan – Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children
Dr. Lewis Webb Chamberlayne - Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics
Dr. John Cullen – Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine
Dr. Augustus Lockman Warner – Dean and Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy
Dr. Socrates Maupin – Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy
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