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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. In March, we recognize: 

• Brain Injury Awareness Month
• Child Life Month
• Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• Kidney Cancer Awareness Month
• Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month
• Nutrition Month (Registered Dietician/Nutritionist Day | March 11)
• Save Your Vision Month
• Social Work Month (Social Work Day | March 17)
• Women's History Month
• March 1–7 Dental Assistants Recognition Week
• March 4 HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) Awareness Day
• March 8–14 Patient Safety Awareness Week
• March 8–14 Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week
• March 11 Registered Dietician/Nutritionist Day
• March 15 International Long COVID Awareness Day
• March 15–21 Gastrointestinal (GI) Nurses and Associates Week
• March 15–21 Poison Prevention Week
• March 16–20 Healthcare Human Resources (HR) Professionals Week
• March 17 Social Work Day
• March 19 Certified Nurses Day
• March 20 Match Day
• March 24 Diabetes Alert Day
• March 30 Doctors' Day
• March 31–April 4 Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians Week (Anesthesia Tech Day | March 31)

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. 

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.