Three times running: U.S. News & World Report Names Inova Fairfax Medical Campus #1 in D.C Metro Area

Hospital earns national rankings in Gynecology (#33) and Neonatology (#42)

Washington DC – July 15, 2014 – For the third year in a row, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus has been ranked as the #1 Hospital in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report. Inova Fairfax also jumped in rankings to #2 in the state, and earned national recognition as #33 in the country in Gynecology and #42 in Neonatology. The annual U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 25th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients.

“We are always proud to be ranked as the region’s top hospital in the Washington, DC, area by U.S. News & World Report,” said Patrick Christiansen, PhD, chief executive officer, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus. “Three years in a row as #1 is an outstanding accomplishment and we are proud of our hospital’s dedicated physicians and staff who provide the best of care to our patients every day. I’d like to congratulate our staff, particularly within Inova Women’s and Children’s for their impressive and well-deserved national rankings.”

Inova Fairfax Medical Campus also earned high-performing rankings in 11 specialties:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Diabetes and Endocrinology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Orthopedics
• Pulmonology
• Urology

In the recently released U.S. News Best Children’s Hospital Rankings, Inova Children’s Hospital was named 42^nd in the nation for Neonatology.

For 2014-15, U.S. News evaluated hospitals in 16 adult specialties and ranked the top 50 in most of the specialties. Just 3 percent of the nearly 5,000 hospitals that were analyzed for Best Hospitals 2014-15 earned national ranking in even one specialty.

U.S. News also recognizes hospitals that perform nearly at the level of their nationally ranked peers and represent valuable regional sources of quality care.

“The data tell the story – a hospital that emerged from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of,” says U.S. News Health Rankings Editor Avery Comarow. “A Best Hospital has demonstrated its expertise in treating the most challenging patients.”

U.S. News publishes Best Hospitals to help guide patients who need a high level of care because they face particularly difficult surgery, a challenging condition or extra risk because of age or multiple health problems. Objective measures such as patient survival and safety data, adequacy of nurse staffing levels and other data largely determined the rankings in most specialties.

The specialty rankings and data were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Using the same data, U.S. News produced the state and metro rankings.

The rankings are freely available at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals and will appear in the U.S. News “Best Hospitals 2015” guidebook, available in August.

All five of Inova’s hospitals were recognized again this year in the top 15 best hospitals in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, and top 20 in Virginia. To learn more about Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, visit www.inova.org/ifh.

Media Contact: Allison Kenty, 703-776-3365, allison.kenty@inova.org