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September: UVA Health Team Member and Health Awareness
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 September, we recognize:
- Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month
- Blood Cancer Awareness Month (Hodgkin, Leukemia, and Lymphoma)
- Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month
- Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
- Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Awareness Month
- Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
- Pain Awareness Month
- Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month
- Sepsis Awareness Month
- Sickle Cell Awareness Month
- Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
- Uterine Cancer Awareness Month
- Vascular and Peripheral Artery Disease Awareness Month
- Women in Medicine Month
- Sept. 1 Labor Day
- Sept. 1-7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Recognition Week
- Sept. 7-13 Vascular Nurses Week
- Sept. 13-19 Neonatal Nurses Week | Sept. 15 Neonatal Nurses Day
- Sept. 14-20 Healthcare Environmental Services (EVS) Week
- Sept. 14-20 Nursing Professional Development Week
- Sept. 14-20 Nephrology Nurses Week
- Sept. 15-21 Rehabilitation Week
- Sept. 17 World Patient Safety Day
- Sept. 17 Physician Suicide Awareness Day
- Sept. 17-21 Surgical Technologists Week
- Sept. 19 Aortic Dissection Awareness Day
- Sept. 22-26 Advanced Practice Providers (APP) Week
- Sept. 29 World Heart 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.
