The final entry in this year’s most-read list highlights the story of the UVA Health System’s care providers, who began a practice of purposefully pausing their work in silence upon the loss of a patient. The Pause – as they’ve coined the practice, which has reached other health systems – is intended to be paid respects to the life lost, and the best efforts of the care providers in their attempt to save it. It’s also an embodiment of the best stories to highlight health care in 2018: patient-centric, team-oriented and norm-breaking.
The University of Virginia Health System's two endoscopy units are receiving top honors for their quality care. UVA's endoscopy centers at the main hospital and on Monroe Lane are two of the 10 centers in the state to achieve the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's Quality Star rating.
The UVA Health System and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital are two of the hospitals nationwide that are now required to post their prices online. The goal is to give consumers information and smart options before they choose a care provider.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing recently received a Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, which covers diversity in higher education. This was the first time UVA’s nursing school has been honored and they were among 35 health professions schools nationwide to receive a 2018 HEED Award.
Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia spent much of 2018 trying to move on from the turbulence and tragedy of 2017. In the coming year, UVA will seek to continue raising funds around the bicentennial.
"I think [Gingrich and the Republicans] deeply believed that they were going to show to the country just how deeply they believed they were right by shutting down the government," Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, said in an interview with the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
A new President’s Commission on University of Virginia in the Age of Segregation aims to tackle the 150 years at UVA following Emancipation.
The University of Virginia's College at Wise has a problem. Already a small school, its enrollment has dropped in recent years, a victim of demographic changes in the area and increased recruitment from nearby universities. To combat declining enrollment, the school hopes to offer reduced tuition rates to any student from the Appalachia region, making the cost of attendance equal or near that charged for Virginia residents.
A bill pre-filed in the Virginia General Assembly aims to improve enrollment rates at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. Legislation sponsored by Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, seeks to change residential requirements for students seeking reduced rate tuition in an effort to boost the student body at the Wise County school by allowing students to attend who reside in one of 13 designated Appalachian region states, extending from New York to Georgia.
The University of Virginia ranked No. 1 for student athletic participation in the state, according to a Watchdog analysis of college sports participation.
David M. O’Brien, a scholar and author who dissected the Supreme Court’s internal machinations and ideological dynamics, treating it as a political institution as much as a legal one, died on Dec. 20 at his home in Charlottesville. He was 67. Dr. O’Brien taught politics at the University of Virginia for almost four decades.
As Baby Boomers move through their senior years, experts say we’re spending big bucks on medical care, often without improving quality of that life. That’s why UVA nursing students are getting more training in what is known as palliative care.
Clubs can also provide MBA students with opportunities for leadership, creativity and personal development. Jed Portman, a second-year MBA student at UVA's Darden School of Business, says his involvement in the school's beer industry club has been profoundly rewarding. Portman is the president and head brewer of Darden's School of Brew, a club which creates the recipes and sources the ingredients for its own one-of-a-kind craft beers, which are then added to the menu of a local brewery taproom.
One of UVA’s most famous faces called this year’s midterm elections better than anyone else in the country. Larry Sabato’s website and newsletter, The Crystal Ball, was the most accurate election forecast of the 2018 House of Representatives in the nation, according to an independent statistician.
In theory, that means that Neal doesn’t need a subpoena—merely a written request—to prompt Mnuchin to hand over Trump’s returns. But, as UVA law professor George Yin explained, “All of this is subject to uncertainty because the law is very limited on this authority.”
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is bearing down on Ultima Thule, its New Year's flyby target in the far away Kuiper Belt. Among its approach observations over the past three months, the spacecraft has been taking hundreds of images to measure Ultima's brightness and how it varies as the object rotates. "An even more bizarre scenario is one in which Ultima is surrounded by many tiny tumbling moons," said University of Virginia's Anne Verbiscer, a New Horizons assistant project scientist.
School shootings prompted protests, debates about best ways to keep students safe: 5 essential reads
UVA school safety expert Dewey Cornell told Congress that “threat assessments were crucial to prevent school shootings.” Such assessments, originally designed to protect public figures like foreign dignitaries and movie stars, could also help protect schools, Cornell argued in a piece adapted from his congressional testimony.
A compromise package Farm Bill has now been signed into law. President Donald Trump signed the legislation on Thursday, including priorities supported by Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine such as the legalization of industrial hemp. Back in 2014, the Farm Bill authorized industrial hemp for agricultural research purposes, and several institutions have been involved in such research in recent years, including the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia is deep in the heart of lone star tick country. It’s also home to a world-class allergy research division, headed up by immunologist Thomas Platts-Mills. He’d been hearing tales of the meat allergy since the ’90s – people waking up in the middle of the night after a big meal, sweating and breaking out in hives. But he didn’t give it much thought until 2004, when he heard about another group of patients all suffering from the same symptoms.
On the same day that Virginia House Democrats published a minority report about school safety, several Central Virginia legislators participated in a town hall at the University of Virginia that largely focused on school safety initiatives and mental health efforts.