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State approves three Chesterfield hospital projects, totaling $672M
Virginia State Health Commissioner Cameron Webb last week signed off on three Chesterfield County hospital projects totaling $672 million.
Virginia Business announces Top Projects awards program
In July, Virginia Business will introduce its inaugural Top Projects recognition program, honoring the innovative buildings and facilities reshaping Virginia’s landscape. (Applications are due April 10 and can be submitted at virginiabusiness.com/top-projects. Top Projects will spotlight the best building and construction projects delivered in Virginia during the prior calendar year (2025) a[...]
VCU Health opens helicopter base at South Hill hospital
VCU Health adds LifeEvac 5 air ambulance base in South Hill, cutting response times for critical patients.
Health care systems navigate supply chain disruptions
Virginia health systems adjusted practices and sourcing as IV fluid shortages, tariffs and global disruptions strained supply chains.
Virginia health board backs VCU Health, Bon Secours projects in Chesterfield
Virginia health staff recommend approval for VCU Health and Bon Secours projects in Chesterfield, but recommend denying HCA proposal.
VCU launches $1.8B fundraising campaign
Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Health have launched the public phase of a $1.838 billion fundraising campaign — the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by the Richmond university and its health system. The effort, called Unlocking Potential: VCU‘s Campaign for the Future, was announced Thursday at a kickoff event at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. […]
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 […]
