Vcu Health System

Riverside Health System, a private nonprofit corporation, is an organization of owned or contractually managed nonprofit and for-profit health care and associated support service facilities throughout eastern Virginia. The system s partnerships with physicians and health plans help individuals improve their health by providing access to comprehensive, cost-effective services. The services include programs in prevention and acute, long term, rehabilitative, ambulatory, managed, educational and home care. The system s individual services are grouped into primary, secondary and tertiary forms of care and are provided equitably without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ability to pay. Just a few of the system s many services include an ask-a-nurse program, cancer treatment services, home care, a mental health division, rehabilitation and therapeutic services and wellness and fitness programs. Riverside Health System began in December 1915 with the chartering of Newport News General and Non Sectarian Hospital.