VCU Medical Center used to be known as Medical College of Virginia (MCV), which merged with Richmond Professional Institute in 1968 to create Virginia Commonwealth University. In the 1990s, an authority controlling MCV Hospitals was created called the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Authority.

When did MCV change to VCU?

In 1968, MCV joined with Richmond Professional Institute to form Virginia Commonwealth University. Today it serves as the area’s only Level I Trauma Center as well as a major referral center for the Southeast.

What did VCU used to be called?

History: How we came to be Way back — we’re talking more than 175 years ago — in 1838, VCU was known by another name. We were the Medical College of Hampden-Sydney, later becoming the Medical College of Virginia.