THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL.
Hospital Board: Drs. Hough, Davis, Watts, Hedges, Macon, Marshall,
Compton, Flippin, Goodwin, Bray, Neff and Wiatt.
Visiting Staff: Drs. Davis, Watts, Hedges, Macon, Compton, Flippin,
Goodwin, Bray, Neff, Smith, Daniel, Magruder, Nelson, Rea.
Daniel Burbridge Yancey,
Superintendent of the Hospital.
Joseph Lee Wright, M.D.,
House Surgeon.
George Breaker Setzler, B.A., M.D.,
House Physician.
Robert Graham Wiatt, M.D.,
Roentgenologist.
Edward Reginal Hipp, B.A., M.D.,
Assistant House Surgeon.
Isaac Alexander Bigger, Jr., M.D.,
Assistant House Surgeon.
William Henry Turner, Jr., M.D.,
Assistant House Physician.
Internes.
David Cole Wilson, B.A., M.D.
James King Gray, M.D.
Roy Michael Hoover, B.A., M.D.
James Alexander Wilkins, Jr., B.S., M.D.
Fletcher Drummond Woodward, M.D.
James Noah Greear, Jr.
Isabel Craig Anderson,
Superintendent of Nurses.
Carolyn Kling,
Dietitian.
Harry Taylor Marshall, B.A., M.D.,
Pathologist.
Henry Bearden Mulholland,
Pharmacist.
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.
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 permits 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.
