Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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V The negro pavilion, the new unit of the Memorial Hospital, is situated on the site of the old Medical College of Virginia, and is used exclusively for the care and treatment of negro patients. It has accommodations for ninety-eight ward patients and forty patients in private rooms, and, while it is a part of the plant of the Memorial Hospital, its operation is complete within itself. The Dooley pavilion, another new unit of the Memorial Hospital, also situated on the site of the old Medical College of Virginia, is used exclusively for the care and treatment of patients with contagious and infectious diseases. It has accom- modations for from twelve to thirty-six patients, according to the demand of the service, the rooms having been so planned that from one to three patients may be accommodated. In order to meet the trend in hospital work toward scientific exactness, the Memo- rial Hospital has spent large sums in adding to its equipment. Graduate resident physicians, trained anaesthetists, registered pharmacists, graduate nurses and trained dietetians are among the personnel of its house officers. Its Bacteriological, Patho- logical and Tissue Laboratories and Roentgen Ray Laboratories are thoroughly equipped with the most modern apparatus and are ready for any examination at any time. These laboratories are under the direct supervision of physicians, who are devoting their entire time exclusively to their special branch of medicine. It is, therefore, immediately recognized that the plant of the Memorial Hospital performs a very specific activity in relation to the Medical College of Virginia, and that without the clinical opportunities afforded, which includes every branch of medicine and surgery, the College could not long maintain its high scholastic standing. III. VIRGINIA HOSPITAL The Virginia Hospital, formerly the teaching institution of the University Col- lege of Medicine in its clinical branches, though owned by the Medical College of Virginia, is now entirely under the control of the city of Richmond. For many years there was an arrangement between the city and the College by which patients were treated in this hospital while controlled by the school. But recently, owing to the growing demands in the city for a municipal hospital, the Virginia Hospital 25

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T building, which directly adjoins the main building of the College, was leased to the city and a municipal institution established to provide free treatment for both white and colored patients. Extensive improvements have been made, and equipment added to make the institution modern in every way. The hospital wards accommodate 240 patients, and, owing to the large number of daily admissions, an abundance of clinical material is always assured. Through an agreement with the city vast numbers of the patients admitted to the hospital are used for clinical teaching by the College. Students are permitted not only to see operations and to follow treatments, but are allowed to study their individual patients and to make diagnoses under the direction of a member of the Faculty. Training in emergency work is furnished by an automobile ambulance service in charge of members of the resident house staff, who are appointed by the College. The staff of this hospital, with a few exceptions, is appointed from the Faculty of the Medical College of Virginia. This further emphasizes the close relation of the College to the community from which it has already received such loyal support. Co-operation between College and city is now practically complete. 27