1838-1998
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1838: | The Medical College of Virginia begins as the medical department of Hampden-Sidney College (as the college name was spelled at the time).
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1860: | In return for a $30,000 appropriation, MCV conveys all its property to the Commonwealth of Virginia and becomes a state institution.
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1893: | Richmond's second medical college, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, opens and is renamed the University College of Medicine (UCM) the following year. By 1913, UCM graduates its last class and merges with MCV in an effort to combine assets.
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1920: | Governor Westmoreland Davis appoints the Commission on Medical Education to study the merger of MCV with the University of Virginia Department of Medicine. The measure is defeated by the General Assembly.
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1940: | MCV Hospital is dedicated.
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1965: | The Virginia Higher Education Study Commission declares the need to establish a major Richmond university with the consolidation of MCV and Richmond Professional Institute, which was founded in 1917. The new university will be called Virginia Commonwealth University.
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1968: | VCU is launched. MCV Associated Physicians (MCVAP) is established as a billing organization for the private medical practice of faculty physicians.
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1978: | MCV Associated Physicians separates from the School of Medicine to form a private, for-profit corporation. It is reorganized as not-for-profit in 1991.
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1996: | The General Assembly approves legislation to establish the MCV Hospitals Authority, preserving MCV Hospitals' public ties through a 16-member board of directors jointly appointed by the governor, the General Assembly, and VCU.
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1997: | July 1 marks the official operating date of the new MCV Hospitals Authority.
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1998: | MCV Associated Physicians changes to MCV Physicians.
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1999-2000
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July 1999: | Task forces identify issues critical to the creation of the Health System in a report to the leadership of VCU, MCV Hospitals, and MCV Physicians.
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November 1999: | VCU's Board of Visitors approves a resolution creating the VCU Health System.
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November 1999: | MCV Physicians approves changes to its Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws allowing the creation of the Health System, contingent on additional legislation.
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December 1999: | The MCV Hospitals Authority Board approves a resolution creating the VCU Health System Authority.
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January 2000: | House Bill #1471, providing for changes to the existing MCV Hospitals Authority legislation to create the VCU Health System, is introduced to the 2000 Virginia legislative session.
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March 2000: | House Bill #1471 is approved.
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April 2000: | Governor James S. Gilmore, III approves the bill.
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May 2000: | VCU's Board of Visitors approves the appointment of Dr. Heber Newsome as Dean of the School of Medicine effective July 1.
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June 2000: | A joint meeting of VCU's Board of Visitors and the MCV Hospitals Authority Board approves the appointment of Dr. Hermes A. Kontos as Chief Executive Officer of the VCU Health System and Vice-President for Health Sciences. The first meeting of the new Board of Directors of the VCU Health System is held.
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July 1, 2000: | The VCU Health System goes into effect.
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