Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Richmond Veterans Administration Medical Center was established on the land of Broad Rock that was once a horse racing track built soon after the Civil War in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The land was purchased by Thomas Marcellous Cheatham in 1892 who built a home for himself and his new bride. [ 2 ]
The VCU Medical Center (VCU Health), formerly known as the Medical College of Virginia (MCV), is the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), located in downtown Richmond, Virginia, United States. As MCV, VCU Medical Center merged with the Richmond Professional Institute in 1968 to create VCU. In the 1990s, the Medical College ...
Richmond (/ ˈ r ɪ tʃ m ə n d / RITCH-mənd) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, [7] making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. [8]
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Richmond (VA)
Richmond Professional Institute became an independent state university for the first time in 1962 and took on the name Rams. [17] In his inaugural address as VCU's first president, November 10, 1970, Dr. Warren W. Brandt itemized some of VCU's special educational benefits to the urban community which it serves as a responsive citizen.
Carilion Clinic is a Roanoke, Virginia-based non-profit integrated health care organization.Carilion owns and operates seven hospitals in the western part of Virginia, a nursing undergraduate program at Radford University Carilion, and a joint-venture medical school and research institute with Virginia Tech known as the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.
Standard Drug Company was a drugstore chain based in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 1919 by Samuel and Leo Rosenthal, who were graduates of the MCV School of Pharmacy. The first store opened on Main Street in Downtown Richmond as a pharmacy only.
The original transplant program begun by Hume in 1962 at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in Richmond was eventually named after Hume and his mentee and successor, Dr. H.M. Lee. In 2002, the Hume-Lee Transplant Center continued as an important and historically significant part of MCV (now known as VCU Health System).