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THE LEADER
Standing Tall
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is
reaching new heights — literally.
This September, the campus
broke ground on the 12-story
Inova Women’s Hospital and
Inova Children’s Hospital. And in
January, Inova Fairfax Hospital
plans to open a new patient
tower for adult care, a site to
behold at 11 stories and 216,000
square feet.
Both additions will provide
much-needed services for
the Fairfax community. The
660,000-square-foot women’s
and children’s hospital, set to
open in 2016, will have nine
floors dedicated to women’s
healthcare services and three
floors to pediatrics.
The new tower will feature all
private patient rooms, each featuring
evidence-based designs
that promote faster healing and
increased family involvement.
Another innovation in the
tower is its high-tech infrastructure,
which will support EpicCare
EMR. EpicCare represents a
new age in medicine, allowing
patients to retrieve medical
results, schedule doctors’
appointments and view lab
results — all online.
The new patient tower is
a symbol of Inova Fairfax
Hospital’s high standards of
excellence in medicine. Adding
to its stature, U.S. News & World
Report recently ranked the hospital
the best in the Washington,
DC, area. (See pages 6–7.) How
can you top that?
Patrick
Christiansen,
PhD
COO, Inova
Fairfax Hospital
Senior Vice
President, Inova
Health System
The Prevent Defense
Flu shot protects against seasonal flu
Fall and winter are a time for holidays, family
gatherings and good times. Unfortunately, they
also are the seasons for the dreaded flu virus.
More than simply a painful cold, the flu is a
serious illness that each year sends more than
200,000 people to the hospital and kills between
3,000 and 49,000 people in the United States
alone. It is characterized by symptoms that
include fever, sore throat, stuffy nose and
muscle aches.
The best way to prevent the flu is to get a
flu shot each season, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC
recommends vaccinations for everyone 6
months and older. The vaccine releases
antibodies into your body that provide
protection against infection from the flu virus.
Inova’s highly trained nurses can help
protect you and your children with the flu
shot. Unlike some other providers, we can
vaccinate children as young as 6 months.
We also offer a nasal flu vaccine known as
FluMist® if you or your child struggles
with shots.
Fight the Flu
Inova Fairfax Hospital is holding weekly on-site
family flu shot clinics from September through
December. On-site flu shot clinics for worksites
and community groups are also available.
For a complete schedule or more information,
visit inova.org/flu.
New Inova.org — More Than Just a Facelift
The new inova.org website launched on Aug. 1, but it wasn’t just a simple change in appearance.
Here’s why:
We improved the site to help our Web visitors get the health and wellness information they need
faster and easier.
Looking to get or stay healthy? With the new website, Inova launched the “Wellness OnDemand”
page — one-stop access to health and fitness tips, classes, videos, newsletters and other wellness
information.
Need to talk to someone? Now you can find our contact information easier. Call us, email us or
chat with us online.
Checking our site from your smartphone? Whether you have a large or a small screen, you can
now more easily see and interact with our website.
Take us for a test drive. Visit inova.org. The future of health is now online.
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