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To support our UVA Health mission of transforming health and inspiring hope — each month, we recognize team member and health awareness months, weeks, and days. 

Every member of our UVA Health team is essential to achieving our mission, so we honor their commitment to: working as one UVA Health team; super quality, patient safety, and outcomes; easy access and experience of care; value-based care; community engagement; enabling discoveries for better health — and much more. 

In February, we recognize: 

• Black History Month
• Children's Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT) Awareness Month
• Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer Awareness Month
• Heart Month
• Recreational Therapy Month (UVA Community Health)
• Feb. 1–7 Patient Recognition Week
• Feb. 2–8 PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week
• Feb. 6 Wear Red Day
• Feb. 7–14 Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week
• Feb. 7–15 Cardiovascular Professionals Week
• Feb. 8–14 Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
• Feb. 8–14 Heart Failure Awareness Week
• Feb. 9–13 Ambulatory Nurses Week
• Feb. 9–13 Phlebotomists Recognition Week
• Feb. 18 Critical Care Transport Nurses Day
• Feb. 22 Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day
• Feb. 23–27 Graduate Medical Education (GME) Trainee Appreciation Week
• Feb. 27 Thank a Resident and Fellow Day

Thank you to all our team members who support our UVA Health vision to be the nation’s leading public academic health system and a best place to work — while transforming patient care, research, education, and community engagement.