Affiliations

The VCU Health System’s MCV Hospitals consists of several hospitals with a total of over 1,000 beds and 30 operating rooms. It is the fourth largest medical center teaching complex in the nation. MCVH serves as a major urban medical complex to a metropolitan population of nearly 1,000,000 people. MCVH also functions as a primary referral center for communities throughout Virginia as well as for several adjacent states.

The Main Hospital includes 541 beds and the majority of the critical care facilities such as emergency rooms, operating rooms and intensive care units. It is located at the center of the health sciences complex and linked to the other hospital buildings via multi-level passageways. The adjacent North Hospital, along with its 10-story tower, offers a total of 432 beds. A new critical care bed tower is currently being built that will house many more additional ICU beds, operating rooms and ER facilities.

Annual admissions to MCV hospitals total approximately 33,000 of which more than 400 are by the oral and maxillofacial surgery service. There are almost 14,000 operations performed each year at the complex and more than 300 involve the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division.

Outpatient visits to the A.D. Williams Memorial Clinic number 161,000 yearly. Approximately 5,000 are visits to the oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic, and more than 300 visits involve ambulatory outpatient general anesthesia and sedation.

The MCV Hospitals are extremely active, handling a large volume of surgical emergencies and trauma cases. The emergency room is the largest in the United States and is the 17th busiest in the country. Of the annual 101,000 emergency room visits, 43,000 are surgical in nature and over 1,000 of these are managed by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Division. The MCVH is a Level I trauma center and has two helipads and two dedicated helicopters.

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery also provides the housestaff with a full scope of experience in oral and maxillofacial surgery through teaching affiliations with nearby St. Mary’s Hospital, a private practice hospital, and Hospital Leonardo Martinez in Honduras, where residents perform primary cleft lip and palate surgery.