RG 17. Health Affairs

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 64 folders of processed materials. Series I of the collection contains materials related to the University of Virginia (UVA) Children’s Medical Center from 1981 to 1989 and includes mostly news clippings and press releases. These documents were likely collected by various iterations of UVA’s Marketing Communications department, including the Medical Center Information Services, the Medical Center News Office, and the Health Sciences Center News Office, and...

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This collection consists of permanent and historically significant institutional records created by the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library and the antecedent Medical Library. These records include, but are not limited to: annual reports, planning documents, newsletters, blogs, social media content, conference programs, department histories, committee records, and library-sponsored lecture materials.

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The Hospital Executive Director's Office (HEDO) Records are composed of 61 boxes of archival material, including photographs and manuscripts.

Scope and Contents The Hospital Medical Ethics Committee Collection includes agendas, minutes, memos, policy drafts, articles and case studies related to the topics of discussion at committee meetings from its creation in 1983 to 2000. Highlights of the collection include discussions of the "Baby Doe" case, indigent access to care, the Natural Death Act, organ donation, HIV testing, confidentiality, development of the Code of Ethics, and the establishment of the Ethics Consultation Service (ECS) at the...

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Letters, memos, applications for the use of radioactive materials with human subjects.

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The Children's Health Museum records include statistics for 1980 through 2001, photographs of the museum, newspaper clippings, newsletters, board meeting minutes from 2000, a poster, a print-out of the website, a guide to the exhibits, and a floor plan.

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The collection includes regular and executive board minutes, financial statements, social services files, Annual Reports, and scrapbooks of photographs and miscellaneous materials.

Scope and Contents The collection includes newspaper clippings from "The Daily Progress" and the "Richmond Times-Dispatch" about the University of Virginia hospital as well as clippings from "The Draw Sheet" about the occupational therapy department and personnel. There are brief histories of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy in Albemarle County, and Occupational Therapy at the University of Virginia. Yearly reports from the O.T. Department in the mid 1940s through the early...

Scope and Contents This small collection contains information related to awards given to faculty and students of the School of Medicine. Materials include descriptions of awards and the names of award recipients (materials available may vary based on award and year). The first folder, containing award information by year, concerns current and discontinued awards. Information on current awards given by the School of Medicine can be accessed at...

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents and notes used to write The History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-2011, by Morton C. Wilhelm and Henry K. Sharp. Included are copies of articles concerning cancer from non UVa related publications as well as those associated with UVa, such as UVa Alumni Bulletin, UVa Medical Alumni News Letter, Helix, Link, Oncologue and The Drawsheet; books notes; timelines; original reports by members of the committee on various topics such as...

Scope and Contents The collection includes annual reports, budgets, and publications by department members. There is also correspondence on the following subjects: Tiffany J. Williams' hiring, the distribution of patients between Gynecology and Surgery, Martha Jefferson Hospital's response to the opening of Northridge, the prenatal diagnosis program and its relationship to the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, medical students at Norfolk Maternity Center, agreement...

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This collection consists of 29 glass plate negatives illustrating various architectural aspects of the University of Virginia Medical Center and School of Medicine circa 1920-1935, including major hospital renovations and additions.

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This collection holds permanent institutional records created by the faculty and staff of the University of Virginia Department of Student Health or by other individuals related to the operations of Student Health. Materials include annual reports, correspondence and subject files of the Director of Student Health, planning documents and reports, historical policies and procedures, department histories, committee records and meeting minutes, photographs, and marketing materials.

Content Description This accession consists of materials documenting the activities of the Medical Equipment Recovery of Clean Inventory (MERCI) program at the University of Virginia. The material was collected by Helen French, a former UVA RN who founded MERCI in 1991. The MERCI collection is primarily composed of materials describing recipient groups and organizations. These include correspondence, equipment data, publications and public relations items. Reports, instructional guides, manuals, meeting...

Scope and Contents The UVA School of Medicine records primarily document the history of the School at all levels of the organization during the 20th and 21st centuries. Administrative records, including annual reports, meeting minutes, planning documents policies, and other materials, document operations, strategic initiatives, and decision making.Communications records, including newsletters, blogs, websites, pamphlets, publications, and recordings, document events and...