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Unrestricted Support for Any Area
Unrestricted support for the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Medical Center, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, or any department or patient center allows ultimate flexibility to meet pressing needs as they emerge. In health care today, needs and priorities are in constant flux as advances are made. Unrestricted funds help us meet new challenges as they arise and plan strategically for the future.
A Building Designed for Patient-Centered Cancer Care
The UVa Cancer Center has a vision for a new clinical cancer building. The building, supported by a $50 million campaign, will be a place where families can come to be supported in their fight against cancer, knowing that they will receive the most advanced therapies possible. The new facility will help UVa accelerate the pace of cancer research, more quickly realize the potential of new cancer therapies, and find more effective ways to reach out to patients and the communities in which they live.
Learn more about the UVa Cancer Center's plans to become a pacesetter in closing the gap between discovery and patient care.
Putting Children First -- the Children's Hospital Outpatient Building
Over the decades, UVa Children's Hospital has grown from a small regional children's program to an internationally recognized hospital for children. To address growth and urgent demand, UVa will construct a new children's hospital outpatient building. The facility, supported by a $38 million campaign, will consolidate services -- including clinics, rehabilitation space, and clinical research suites -- all in one convenient and friendly location.
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Construct a State-of-the-Art Medical Education Building
The new medical education building will provide 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 emergency medicine skills. Facility construction is expected to cost $30 million, $12.5 million of which has been contributed through a challenge gift from the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation, with another $3 million from the School of Medicine.
Read more about the medical education building, and how UVa plans to transform the way doctors are trained.
Expanding Facilities for Nursing Education
A $20-million nursing education building and the renovation of the School of Nursing's McLeod Hall will add 32,000 square feet for training and preparing the next generation of nurses. The new building will feature larger, more innovative, and flexible teaching spaces, and will have more space for research aimed at improving patient care. The building will feature tiered classrooms equipped to facilitate faculty-student and student-student interactions, utilizing the latest in instructional technologies.
Read more about the School of Nursing's plans to support the people, the space, and the ideas behind their revolution in nursing education.
Fostering Education - Professorships, Scholarships, & Fellowships
The future of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing depends upon the quality of our faculty. Great teachers and talented researchers attract the best students, increase national funding, and attract other professors of the same caliber. Privately endowed professorships keep medical and nursing education at UVa strong and robust. Meanwhile, it is also imperative that we recruit and retain the brightest students year after year, regardless of their financial backgrounds. High caliber students promote a first-rate teaching school, where academics, research, and clinical care thrive. Increased scholarships and fellowships also promote a diversity of students, enriching the entire UVa community.
Read more about endowed gifts for education and how this type of support fosters the next generation of doctors and nurses.
Support for Groundbreaking Research
In UVa laboratories today, scientists are testing a vaccine for cancer, tracking down the fundamental causes of Alzheimer's, developing new ways to predict and treat infection in infants, exploring the possibilities of regenerative medicine, and pursuing many more powerful breakthroughs. To continue this momentum, we must increase support for medical research. Increased research support will fuel discoveries, moving solutions more quickly from the laboratory to the bedside.
Research Laboratories
Research holds the key to the future of health care. The Schools of Medicine and Nursing have active and significant research programs that attract substantial support from the National Institutes of Health. Research space at UVa, however, falls short of fulfilling out scientific needs and potential. Only by adding essential laboratory space can we keep pace with the breakthrough research from our labs.
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