Inova Loudoun Hospital focuses on community
Mission Driven
Understanding how for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals work can be confusing. Both make money, so what’s the difference? To Inova, the answer is simple: community.
Inova is a not-for-profit healthcare system. “This means that we reinvest profit back into the community,” explains Suzy Quinn, Executive Director, Inova Loudoun Hospital (ILH) Foundation. These investments can take various forms, such as research, education, facilities, services and/or outreach.
“For Inova, being not-for-profit also brings a commitment to delivering state-of-the-art healthcare services to anyone in need, regardless of their ability to pay,” Quinn adds. A few examples include the ILH-based Obstetrics (OB) Clinic, Life with Cancer, Partnership for Healthier Kids program and ILH’s Mobile Health Services.
“We provide access to resources and services that the community needs,” Stacey Miller, Government and Community Relations Liaison, West Region, says. “Not-for-profits tend to work together to fulfill needs that are otherwise not available to everyone. Our combined efforts make the community stronger.”
The ILH-based Obstetrics Clinic provides comprehensive OB-GYN services for uninsured and low-income women in Loudoun County. Services include gestational diabetes management, case management, non-stress testing and nutritional counseling. From 2012–2015, the ILH OB Clinic provided almost 15,000 visits for low-income women in the community at a cost of more than $5 million.
Inova’s Life with Cancer program offers world-class educational and psycho-social support services free to families and individuals facing cancer. Anyone living with, caring for or affected by cancer — regardless of where the patient lives or receives treatment — can benefit from the Life with Cancer program.
Partnership for Healthier Kids is a community-based outreach program designed to increase access to care for uninsured children in Northern Virginia. Since 1998, the program has successfully connected more than 45,000 children to a source of healthcare services.
Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Health Services provides the community with direct access to preventive health screenings and education through the use of the Mobile Health Bus, a self-contained health clinic.
“The Mobile Health team offers senior communities, school system employees and other groups direct access to health screenings,” Miller says. “We also offer first aid and heating/cooling stations at local, health-related events. Most of these services are free, as part of Inova’s investment in our community.”