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Dear friends and neighbors,
As we emerge from COVID, we have been busy at UVA Health. I’m excited to share with you a few highlights from the last several weeks.
UVA Health celebrates its Comprehensive Cancer Center designation — the first and only in Virginia:
Recently, UVA Health and our Cancer Center leaders had the distinct honor of joining in a celebration to recognize the Cancer Center’s recent Comprehensive designation, making us the first, and only, Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This distinction marks UVA Health as a destination for patients who require more complex and advanced cancer care and ensures our ability to provide life-saving therapies and detect cancer at an earlier stage. Thank you to the many members of the community and volunteers who support our Cancer Center through their advocacy and time. You are our ambassadors and champions, and you strengthen our ability to provide incredible patient care. We at UVA Health are thrilled and honored to provide world-class cancer care to our community.
International scholar and nursing leader Marianne Baernholdt named dean of UVA’s School of Nursing:
Marianne Baernholdt, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, will join UVA as the seventh dean of the School of Nursing on Aug. 1. Dr. Baernholdt comes to UVA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Nursing, where she is vice dean of research and the associate dean of global initiatives. As is mentioned frequently in the media, the country is facing a shortage of nurses. We look forward to Dr. Baernholdt working with her leadership team to take the UVA School of Nursing program — already one of the highest ranked programs in the country — to even greater heights. Our goal is to train more highly skilled nurses who can contribute to the care of our community. Welcome Dr. Baernholdt!
I would also like to recognize and extend my deepest appreciation to our out-going Dean, Pam Cipriano, for her remarkable leadership of the School of Nursing, and for being consistently at the forefront of advocating for quality and advancing the role and visibility of nurses nationally and internationally throughout her 40-year career in nursing.
We’re creating jobs and training the next generation of healthcare workers:
Our new Earn While You Learn (EWYL) program is an opportunity for community members to find a career in healthcare through hands-on training while receiving full-time pay and benefits. We are already interviewing two cohorts of trainees – Pharmacy Technicians and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) – who, after training, will begin their careers caring for patients at UVA Health and beyond. We’ll be moving forward with two more EWYL programs to train Certified Nursing Assistants and Phlebotomists in the coming months. UVA is the largest employer in our community and we are always proud to have community members become part of the UVA Health family. If you know someone who is interested in joining our team, visit or share this link to get started today.
Paying it forward to care for our community:
UVA Health donated a retired ambulance to CATEC, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center, to support their EMT training program. The program will help EMT students simulate hands-on learning experiences in the unique environment of an ambulance. We believe supporting EMT training benefits our entire community by lifting the level of emergency care in our area and increasing bandwidth to provide emergency care in ambulances and hospitals around our region.
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine convenes a COVID Care roundtable with UVA Health experts:
We were pleased to welcome U.S. Senator Tim Kaine to UVA Medical Center last month for a roundtable meeting with leaders, frontline care providers, and researchers to discuss their experiences caring for patients with COVID-19 and researching the disease. The particular focus of these discussions was on our team’s experiences with long COVID which describes the many residual symptoms that persist once acute COVID symptoms have resolved. Sen. Kaine has introduced the Comprehensive Access to Resources and Education (CARE) for Long COVID Act, which will improve research on long COVID and provide more resources for people experiencing this devastating syndrome.
Thanks for allowing us to make you aware of a few UVA Health initiatives.
Wishing you and your loved ones health and happiness,
K. Craig Kent, MD
Chief Executive Officer, UVA Health |
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