Inova Fairfax Hospital

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

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.

Inova Fairfax Hospital also hosts residents from universities such as the University of Virginia, and is a clinical campus for students from Virginia Commonwealth University. 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.

Awards 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000--Best Hospitals, U.S. News & World Report Magnet Nursing Status, American Nurses Association

Activity (1/1/2005–1/1/2006) Admissions: 51,843 Inpatient surgeries: 19,152 Outpatient visits: 390,917 Outpatient surgeries: 24,257 Emergency room visits: 76,967 Births: 11,556 Number of beds: 927

Staffing (employed, on payroll) Registered nurses Full-time: 1,230 Part-time: 800 Licensed practical nurses Full-time: 21 Part-time: 6 Total facility personnel Full-time: 4,358 Part-time: 1,720

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

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 January 2007.''