Inova Fairfax Hospital is the largest hospital in the Washington D.C. area. Located in Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County is a county in Virginia, in the United States. Per the 2010 Census, the population of the county is 1,081,726, making it the most populous jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with 13.5% of Virginia's population...

, Inova Fairfax Hospital is the flagship hospital of Inova Health System

Inova Health System

Inova Health System is a non-profit health organization based in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. Inova Health System is a network of hospitals, outpatient services, assisted living and long-term care facilities, and healthcare centers....

, one of the largest employers in Fairfax County. The hospital campus includes the only heart institute in the region, the 156-bed Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, as well as the Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children. Northern Virginia’s only Children’s Hospital – largest Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit in the region, dedicated Pediatric intensive care, oncology unit, adolescent unit, cardiac surgery and pediatric surgery center.

Capability

Inova Fairfax Hospital (IFH) itself is an 833-bed tertiary care hospital, which houses Northern Virginia's only Level 1 Trauma Center (for treating the most critically injured patients), the nation's fifth busiest obstetrics program (with nearly 12,000 live births in 2006), and is one of only six community hospitals in the nation offering the full spectrum of organ transplantation. It is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the Washington, D.C., area and nationwide, being named among the top 50 hospitals for gastrointestinal

Gastrointestinal tract

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 disorders, gynecology, and heart & heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

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Inova Fairfax Hospital also hosts residents from universities such as the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

, and is a clinical campus for students from Virginia Commonwealth University's

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...

 School of Medicine

VCU School of Medicine

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine is the largest and oldest continuously operating medical school in Virginia. The school traces its beginnings to the 1838 opening of the medical department of Hampden-Sydney College, which in 1854 became an independent institution known as the...

. IFH has also hosted medical and nursing students from George Washington, Howard, Georgetown, George Mason and Marymount Universities, as well as Northern Virginia Community College.

Activity

The following were statistics at the end of the year ending June 30, 2009:

• Admissions: 54,361
• Inpatient surgeries: 19,349
• Outpatient visits: 392,405
• Emergency room visits: 98,317
• Births: 11,182
• Number of beds: 833

Staffing (employed, on payroll)

• Physicians and Dentists Full-time: 99
• Part-time: 34
• Registered nurses Full-time: 1,992
• Part-time: 812
• Licensed practical nurses Full-time: 18
• Part-time: 3

Key services

• General medical and surgical care
• General intensive care
• Cardiac intensive care
• Cardiology department
• Open-heart surgery
• Neurology department
• Pediatric medical and surgical care
• Pediatric intensive care
• Obstetrics
• Orthopedics department
• Emergency department
• Trauma Center
• Oncology

Specialized services

• Inpatient: Birthing room, End-of-life services (Pain management and Palliative care), Infection isolation room, Neonatal intensive care, Oncology services, Organ transplantation, Psychiatric care (Partial hospitalization and Psychiatric emergency services)
• Outpatient: Angioplasty, Bariatric/weight control services, Breast cancer screening/mammograms, Cardiac catheterization laboratory, Certified trauma center, Oncology services, Complementary/alternative medicine, Dental services, Extracorporeal shock lithotripter, Fitness center, Genetic testing/counseling, Geriatric services, HIV-AIDS services, Kidney dialysis, Oncology services, Physical rehabilitation, Psychiatric services, Child/adolescent services, Consultation, Geriatric services, Outpatient care, Radiation therapy, Fertility Clinic, Sports medicine, Substance-abuse programs, Urgent-care center, Women's health center, Wound management services
• Patient/family support services: Ambulance services, Assistance with government services, Chaplaincy/pastoral care services, Oncology services, Patient support groups, Patient representative/ombusdman, Translation services
• Community outreach: Health fairs, Health screenings, Meals on wheels
• Imaging services (diagnostic and therapeutic): CT scanner, Diagnostic radioisotope facility, Gamma Knife, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Multislice spiral computer tomography (MSCT), Positron emission tomography (PET), Single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT), Ultrasound
• Data provided by the American Hospital Association. Last updated June 2009.

Awards

• Best Hospitals, U.S. News & World Report: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
• Best Hospitals, Heart and Heart Surgery, U.S. News & World Report: #21 (2007)
• Magnet Nursing Status: American Nurses Association
• America’s 50 Best Hospitals: 2007-2010 by HealthGrades
• 50 Best Hospitals in America: February 23, 2011 by Becker's Hospital Review

Inova Fairfax Hospital Awards

External links

• INOVA Fairfax Hospital | INOVA Health System