The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has awarded the 2016 Hovey S. Dabney Award for Corporate Citizenship to Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System, according to The Daily Progress.
The award, which was established in 2005, acknowledges excellent examples of corporate citizenship in the community. It is named in honor of Hovey S. Dabney, a former University of Virginia rector and Charlottesville banker, who died in 2007.
The University of Virginia Health System received the award due to its outstanding relations in the area. In 2015, it did $93 million in business with 869 Virginia-based companies and hired 50 graduates from the University of Virginia School of Nursing to work at its medical center.
"The University of Virginia, with its 11,000 employees, is one of the leading medical centers in the country and a worldwide leader in medical research — and it's all right here in our hometown," said Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce President Timothy Hulbert in a statement.