When Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health opened its comprehensive orthopedic center, A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, chair of orthopedic surgery at UVA, had already spent nearly a decade helping bring the project to life.
The building gave the department room to grow. It brought clinics, outpatient operating rooms, imaging, rehabilitation, research and education into one place. Surgeons who once worked in separate buildings could suddenly walk next door to discuss a difficult case.
Four years later, Dr. Chhabra does not consider the building the department’s greatest achievement…