UVa Health System Scrapbook: The 1990s
1990
- Books and Journals: 161,569
- Current Periodicals: 2,897
- Tuition: Virginia $6,928, Other $14,728
- Students: 556
- A new helicopter for the Pegasus emergency air service arrives.
- Dr. Edward Hook retires as chair of Internal Medicine; his successor is Dr. John Marshall.
- John Harlan retires after 38 years of service to UVa.
- UVa School of Medicine reaches record recruitment of minority students: 10% of the incoming class.
- The 7th and 8th floors of the University Hospital opened for the Children’s Medical Center, Women’s Pavilion, and the DeCamp Burn Center.
- Phase II of the addition to the Kluge’s Children’s Rehabilitation Center is finished.
- Historical Collections is home to the archives of the American Lung Association of Virginia.
- UVa’s first LDRP (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum) rooms are in use.
- For the first time, UVa assigns a full-time faculty member to a satellite clinic.

- Apheresis machine retrieves blood once discarded

- John Casteen, President of the University of Virginia

- Linda Watson named Director of Library, effective May 1

- UVa is 1 of 5 locations in the world to use ROBOSTAT

- Dr. Moses K. Woode named Assistant Dean for Student Academics

- Smoking policy at the University Hospital is developed

- Children’s Medical Center shaping up

- Grant supports post-baccalaureate program
1991
- Books and Journals: 165,081
- Current Periodicals: 4,666
- Tuition: n/a
- Students: n/a
- The Health Sciences Library celebrates its fifteenth year.

- Medical School Class of 1991 outside the Health Sciences Library

- Catching up with the latest issue of a journal

- In the Bookstacks

- Working on a computer in the Learning Resource Center

- Dr. Donald Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine, with Health Sciences Library staff

- Nursing School Graduation, 1991
1992
- Books and Journals: 169,410
- Current Periodicals: 5,203
- Tuition: n/a
- Students: n/a
- The Health Sciences Library provides Outreach Services around Virginia.
- The Charlottesville Free Clinic opens.

- Medical School Class of 1992

- Jean Lancaster, Dean of the School of Nursing

- Students cracking the books in the Library

- It’s always time to study

- Time for research at the computers

- Outreach Services are provided by the Library throughout Virginia

- Medical students tour the Charlottesville Free Clinic facilities, for which they solicited building supplies

- The Spinal Chords Choral Group supports the newly opened Free Clinic
1993
- Books and Journals: 169,796
- Current Periodicals: 2,908
- Tuition: n/a
- Students: n/a
- President Bill Clinton introduces his health care plan to the nation.
- “Forced to change the way we provide health care because of otherwise insurmountable problems of cost and access, we hope fervently that a reformed health care system will not simply be different, but better.” —Vice President and Provost for Health Sciences, Don Detmer
- UVa becomes the only approved liver transplant center between Baltimore and Atlanta.

- The Spinal Chords Choral Group

- The Palpitations Choral Group

- A new Computer Lab opens in the Library

- Jordan Hall Annex Construction
1994
- Books and Journals: 178,275
- Current Periodicals: 2,876
- Tuition: Virginia $8,702, Other $19,012
- Students: 556
- Work continues on Jordan Hall.
- UVa’s HMO, QualChoice, introduced to the Charlottesville area.
- Success of MAAP shows in number of minority medical students

- Medical School Class of 1994

- Sam & Lisa Brooke take time out from their studies

- Robert Carey, Dean of the School of Medicine

- Pegasus Air Ambulance Service celebrates 10th anniversary

- The robots are coming

- A home away from home in Salem, Virginia

- Standardized patient program provides student with opportunities to practice clinical skills

- Dr. Benjamin Sturgill, Associate Dean of Admissions
1995
- Books and Journals: 181,123
- Current Periodicals: 2,895
- Tuition: Virginia $9,238, Other $21,212
- Number of Students: 556
- Blue Ridge inpatient units prepare to move.
- Northridge is to become a premier outpatient center.
- A new Acupuncture Clinic opens at Blue Ridge.
- The UVa telemedicine system is used for the first time.
- the UVa Nursing History Center receives the first archival collection from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners.
- The official kickoff of the largest fund-raising campaign in the Health System’s history takes place.
- The Bone Marrow Trasplant Unit offers new hope for kids fighting cancer.
- The Cancer Center opens.

- Medical School Class of 1995

- Body Talk opens

- Dr. Robert Carey, Dean of the School of Medicine

- Library celebrates the re-opening of the Jordan Link

- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy debuts

- Hospice and Palliative Care Unit opens under the direction of Dr. Carlos Gomez

- Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Richard D. Pearson

- Three-story conference center under construction along with additions to Jordan Hall
1996
- Books and Journals: 1185,023
- Current Periodicals: 2,840
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a

- Medical School Class of 1996

- Putting in some study time in the Library

- Computer research in the Library

- A group of medical students in the Library

- Students hard at work in the Library

- Construction continues on the new Medical Education Building
1997
- Books and Journals: 187,965
- Current Periodicals: 2,315
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: n/a
- In 1997, the Health Sciences Library answered 93,000 reference questions, provided computing services to over 55,000 users, and supported more than 148,000 computer literature searches.

- Medical School Class of 1997

- Students love the friendly Library staff

- Students doing research in the Library’s LRC

- Computer literature searching in the Library
1998
- Books and Journals: 188,391
- Current Periodicals: 2,380
- Tuition: n/a
- Number of Students: 556
- A preliminary design of the L-shaped Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences Building, to be located next to McLeod Hall, is finished.
- The UVa Hospital Auxiliary celebrates 90 years of service.
- The use of powder-free, low-latex gloves is made hospital policy.
- The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library forms a committee called Library Partners to steer its capital campaign with the goal of raising $5 million.
- The new UVa Blood Donor Center opens.
- The Hospital Auxiliary Snack Shop, also known as The “Pink Ladies’s Canteen,” closes after 50 years.
- UVa is the first hospital in the country to use a commercially manufactured tissue glue to reduce bleeding during surgery.
- The ninth annual edition of America’s Best Hospitals ranks nine UVa medical specialties in the top tier of the nation's best.
- Pegasus safely transports its 10,000th patient and flies past the one million-mile mark.
- The University expresses deep concern regarding the just-discovered 1995 baby-switching incident.
- UVa medical students travel to Brazil, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and Indonesia for fourth-year electives.

- Graduates of the School of Nursing have one of the best years in recent memory for finding jobs

- Health care providers demonstrating the new instant hand sanitizer as an alternative to soap and water

- Dr. Edward W. Hook, chair of Internal Medicine for over 20 years, passes away

- The John Vowles House, built in 1824 and thought to be the oldest building on West Main Street, is acquired by the Medical Alumni Association

- Medical School Class of 1998

- HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital building opens at Fontaine Research Park

- Class of 1998 students spotted in the Health Sciences Library

- Students studying in the Library
1999
- Books and Journals: 184,233
- Current Periodicals: 2,430
- Tuition: Virginia $11,642, Other $23,952
- Number of Students: 556
- The Emergency Department begins renovations.
- The School of Nursing, in partnership with other departments across campus, unveils a joint-degree program for nurses pursuing graduate study in bioethics.
- The UVa Health System is listed among the one hundred most wired in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
- The name Virginia Health System is used for all health-related elements at UVa.
- Joan Echtenkamp Klein is awarded the newly funded Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Professorship in Historical Collections & Services.
- Bodytalk is the largest consumer health information center on the East Coast.
- The UVa Health System continues planning efforts to minimize any disruptions that may be caused by Y2K.
- The Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professorship in Nursing is the first professorship created at UVa to honor a female dean.
- Earplugs are available at the Library to muffle the sound of construction.
- The hospital is recognized as one of the nation’s top 100 hospitals and one of the top 15 major teaching hospitals in the study, “100 Top Hospitals: Benchmarks for Success.”
- The School of Medicine Class of 1999 football team wins the University title with teamwork and defense.
- The Library completes planning for its renovation.
- The Library assumes editorial responsibility for the Health Sciences Center Web site.
- The Library provides access to over 140 electronic full-text books and journals over the Web.
- The Library develops a virtual exhibit gallery of historical materials.

- The Library celebrates the start of a long-awaited $5.5 million renovation and expansion project. Library Director Linda Watson and Dean Robert Carey heft the first shovel of dirt unearthed for the event from the Library’s unfinished basement, where construction will begin.

- Dr. William Thornton, former chair of OB/GYN , passes away

- Match Day for medical students

- Halloween party

- Medical School Class of 1999

- Dr. Don Detmer and Joan Echtenkamp Klein in a Historical Collections & Services celebration to honor the Detmers for their long-standing support of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
