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UVA medical campus opens at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
The Claude Moore Health Education and Research Center. A new branch of the University of Virginia medical school at the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus opened March 8 with 36 third-year students, the Washington Business Journal reports. Inova Health System and UVA have been planning the UVA Inova Campus for the past five years.
Inova cancels COVID vaccination appointments
Many people lucky enough to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccination in Fairfax County –including teachers who registered with Inova – are disappointed to find their appointments have been canceled. That’s because Fairfax County is getting fewer doses than anticipated. On Jan. 25, Inova announced it’s canceling all first-dose appointments “for the foreseeable future” due to the … Continued
More details emerge on Landmark Mall redevelopment
The concept for redeveloping Landmark Mall. Representatives of Inova, the City of Alexandria, and the Foulger-Pratt development company presented more details on the plans to create an urban village/medical complex at Landmark Mall at a community meeting Jan. 4. The plan calls for tearing down the mall and developing the 52-acre property with a new … Continued
Inova to relocate Alexandria Hospital to Landmark Mall site
The new plan for Landmark Mall. The City of Alexandria, Inova Health System, and three development companies announced an initial agreement Dec. 22 to build a new hospital campus and mixed-used urban village on the site of the former Landmark Mall. Inova would invest $1 billion in the medical campus, which would be anchored by … Continued
Inova Fairfax Hospital begins COVID vaccinations for staff
Nurse Meg Sourbeer gets the first COVID vaccine at Inova Fairfax Hospital. [WJLA] Inova Fairfax Hospital received its first doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Dec. 15 and immediately began training nurses and pharmacists who volunteered to inoculate their coworkers, WJLA/ABC7 News reports. Meg Sourbeer, a neonatal intensive care nurse and 40-year veteran at Fairfax … Continued
Inova to open a new cancer screening center
The Schar Cancer Institute on the Inova campus on Gallows Road just north of Annandale. Inova Health System and its Inova Schar Cancer Institute announced plans to open a new cancer screening and prevention center on the campus of the Inova Center for Personalized Health in fall 2021. The new 24,000-square-foot center will provide life-saving services for these types of cancers: … Continued
Annandale Treasure Trove closes permanently
The Treasure Trove consignment shop in the Annandale Shopping Center on Columbia Pike has closed permanently, Inova announced Nov. 4. The challenge of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the temporary closing of the three Treasure Trove stores run by Inova, meant “our charitable dollars, supported by your generous purchases, donations, and consignments, … Continued
Lincolnia teen raises $8,000 for first responders
Mealy Cronin [WUSA9] Local teen Mealy Cronin raised $8,000 on GoFundMe to support first responders and essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic. She is using the funds to provide hundreds of meals to Fairfax County and Arlington police stations and to six Inova hospitals. She organized a delivery from District Taco at the Skyline Center … Continued
Most COVID patients at Inova have recovered
Inova staff have enough PPE to serve COVID patients. [Inova] Inova Health System has treated more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients in the last two months, and nearly 700 of them have been discharged, reports Inova president and CEO Dr. J. Stephen Jones. Many more people recovered from COVID at home without needing hospital care. Jones … Continued
First responders salute healthcare workers treating COVID patients at Fairfax Hospital
Fairfax County police officers and firefighters took part in a Siren Salute to Healthcare Heroes event at Inova Fairfax Hospital April 29. Dozens of physicians and nurses stood along Gallows Road, as police cruisers and firetrucks drove by with lights flashing and sirens blaring in honor of the healthcare workers on the frontlines of the … Continued
Northam extends ban on elective surgery
A technician at the Fairfax County Health Department Laboratory has a message for the public. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on April 23 extended the ban on elective surgeries until May 1. That ban had been set to expire tomorrow. Northam also extended the closure of Department of Motor Vehicle public-facing offices by two weeks until … Continued
Ryan Zimmerman creates Pros for Heroes fund for healthcare workers
Ryan Zimmerman appears on the Today Show from his home in Great Falls. With COVID-19 ravaging the community, and healthcare workers are battling the disease with less-than adequate supplies, Washington National star Ryan Zimmerman stepped up to the plate. Zimmerman and his wife Heather founded the Pros for Heroes campaign to raise money for hospital … Continued
Inova seeks plasma from people who recovered from COVID-19 for research study
Inova Fairfax Hospital If you’ve had COVID-19 and recovered, Inova Health System wants to study your blood. Actually, what Inova wants is your plasma, the colorless fluid part of blood, which contains immunoglobulins (immune protection), and could be used by researchers working on treatments for patients currently sick with COVID-19we. To qualify for plasma donation, … Continued
Inova offers curbside COVID-19 testing
Drive-up coronavirus testing in Arlington hosted by the Virginia Hospital Center. [Tyrone Turner/WAMU] Starting today, March 25, three Inova Urgent Care clinics – in North Arlington, Tysons, and Dulles South – will offer curbside coronavirus testing. People with a testing order from a physician can drive up to one of those sites where a clinician will … Continued
Two new coronavirus cases in Fairfax County
Two new presumptive positive coronavirus cases were announced by the Fairfax County Health Department March 13, bringing the total to six. One case involves an individual in her 40s who was in close contact with a positive COVID-19 case linked to Christ Church in Georgetown. The individual developed respiratory symptoms on March 3 and sought … Continued