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VCU Health plans to add 16-story hospital tower
VCU Health hopes to soon construct a major hospital tower at its downtown medical center campus in Richmond, which will feature 576 beds.
Southwest Virginia businessman and philanthropist McGlothlin dies
Jim McGlothlin, a former coal magnate, backer of the state's first casino and a prominent philanthropist, has died at the age of 85.
VCU to end gender-affirming youth medical care
VCU Health announced this week that it would stop providing all gender-affirming care at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU for patients under age 19 three months from now.
Inova Fairfax Hospital ranks No. 1 in Va. for fifth year
Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church has been ranked the No. 1 hospital in Virginia by U.S. News and World Report.
VCU Health performs nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant
Richmond-based VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center made history this month by becoming the first center in the United States to perform a fully robotic liver transplant using a liver from a living donor. VCU Health said the procedure, which was led by the interim surgical director of liver transplant Seung Duk Lee, used the da […]
VCU receives approval to purchase Altria Richmond research facility
Virginia Commonwealth University received state approval this week to buy Altria Group’s 450,000-square-foot research building in downtown Richmond. The Altria Center for Research and Technology, which opened in 2007, sits on more than four acres at 600 E. Leigh St. and is assessed for $275 million. Discussions between officials with VCU and Henrico County-based Fortune […]
VCU Health resumes gender-affirming care for existing patients, following U.Va. decision
VCU Health and the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU announced Tuesday that the system will resume gender-affirming medical treatments for people under 19 if they are existing patients, but the system will not offer gender-affirming surgeries or medically treat new young patients. VCU Health and UVA Health suspended all gender-affirming medical care for patients […]
U.Va. board to meet over gender-affirming care dispute
The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors — now controlled by members appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin — has scheduled a Feb. 21 special meeting to discuss UVA Health‘s decision to resume gender-affirming medical care for patients under the age of 19. The university-affiliated health system suspended treatments in late January after a federal executive […]
UVA Health resumes gender-affirming care after federal judge’s order
Updated Feb. 15 A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order that suspended President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order banning gender-affirming medical care for people under the age of 19, impacting patients and hospitals across the country, including in Virginia. Trump’s original order — as well as Virginia Attorney Gen. […]
W&M receives $50M gift from alum for Batten School, VIMS
William & Mary alumnus Dr. R. Todd Stravitz has donated $50 million to the Williamsburg university to create a full-tuition scholarship fund for its new Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences and the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, W&M announced Thursday. This is W&M’s largest ever scholarship fund donation, it said in the announcement, […]
CHKD is latest Va. system to halt gender-affirming treatment for minors
Days after UVA Health and VCU Health suspended all gender-affirming medical treatments for people under age 19, Norfolk-based Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters has followed suit, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. In a statement, CHKD noted that it has never offered surgical treatments to patients. “With the utmost concern for our patients and our caring […]
UVA Health, VCU Health halt gender-affirming treatments for minors
UVA Health and VCU Health systems have suspended all gender-affirming treatments for patients under 19 years old, after receiving a written opinion Thursday from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. In a memo from Miyares titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” the Republican attorney general referred to President Donald Trump’s executive order iss[...]
