Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia

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 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

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

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