The University of Virginia record :: February 1, 1918

The hospital is the property of the University and is under the exclusive
control of its Medical Faculty. It was designed and is administered as a teaching
hospital, being so arranged that free use can be made of its clinical material
without in any way disturbing or violating the privacy of other patients.

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The buildings are arranged upon the pavilion system, consisting of a central
structure, four stories in height, to which have been added up to the present
time three additional units of three stories each. The central building is largely
devoted to administrative purposes and general service departments, but also
contains an amphitheater and suite of private operating rooms, sterilizing and
anesthetizing rooms. The three pavilions are connected with the main building
by corridors on each floor. In these are located the wards and suites of rooms
for private patients. As at present constituted, the hospital has a capacity
of about 200 beds; of these, upwards of 160 are available and used for clinical
teaching.

The recently completed north pavilion contains, in addition to quarters for
ward and private patients, on the first floor, a specially designed series of laboratory
rooms, which have been equipped with new and modern furnishings and
apparatus throughout. The basement floor is devoted in large part to the Out-Patient
Department of the Hospital. Here separate waiting rooms for white
and colored patients are provided, examining rooms for medical cases, operating
rooms for minor surgery, specially equipped rooms for genito-urinary and
orthopedic surgery and for the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and
throat. On the same floor is the Roentgen Ray Department of the hospital.

Attention is particularly called to the fact that the hospital, with its associated
Out-Patient Department, constitutes a most valuable adjunct to the
teaching facilities of the Department of Medicine. The size of the clinic per
mits the presentation of a wide variety of cases, and the organization of the
hospital as an integral part of the Medical Department affords exceptional
facilities for thorough study of the individual case.

The location of the University Hospital is a most favorable one, being
situated at the intersection of two great railway trunk lines near the geographical
center of the State. A large population outside of the city of Charlottesville
is available as a source of clinical material, both in the wards and the Out-Patient
Department. The hospital is thus enabled to serve a large area of the
State, and the transportation facilities are such that this service includes a
progressively increasing number of emergency cases and cases of acute illness.

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Successor to Dr. Mason Ross Pratt, resigned December, 1917.

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