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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 November, we recognize: 

• Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Cancer Awareness Month
• Caregivers Month
• COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Awareness Month
• Epilepsy Awareness Month
• Hospice and Pallative Care Month
• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
• Prematurity Awareness Month | World Preamurity Day Nov. 17
• Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
• Oct. 31–Nov. 1 (overnight) Fall Back Celebration
• Nov. 1–7 Surgical Nurses Week
• Nov. 1–7 Urology Nurses and Associates Week
• Nov. 1–7 Patient Transport Week
• Nov. 2–8 Healthcare Compliance and Ethics Week
• Nov. 8-14 Radiologic Technologist Week
• Nov. 8-14 Nurse Practitioner Week
• Nov. 8-14 Perioperative Nurses Week
• Nov. 11 Veterans Day
• Nov. 12 Genetic Counselors Day
• Nov. 19 Great American Smokeout
• Nov. 26 Thanksgiving

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.