Inova Fairfax Hospital Revises Patient Tower Opening to January 2013

Falls Church, VA – (August 20, 2012) – Inova Fairfax Hospital announced today that the planned opening of its new patient tower in November will now occur in January 2013. The revised timeline will give hospital staff and physicians additional time to prepare for the adoption of a campus-wide electronic medical record system, EpicCare, which is slated to launch November 9.

Construction on the 11-story medical/surgical patient tower began in July 2010. The 216,000 square foot building dovetails with the hospital’s existing tower and will feature 174 private patient rooms. The building is part of a larger expansion project across the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus designed to upgrade its facilities into a world-class environment for patient care, education and research. When complete in 2016, the campus expansion will include the new patient tower now under construction, renovations to convert the existing patient tower to all private rooms, a 12-story tower with all private patient rooms for Inova Women’s Hospital and Inova Children’s Hospital, and an eight-story parking garage for patients and visitors.

Follow Inova Fairfax Medical Campus’s expansion at www.inova.org/ifhconstruction.

Contact: Janice Moore, janice.moore@inova.org, 703-340-6873

Inova Health System is a not-for-profit health care system based in Northern Virginia that consists of hospitals and other health services, including emergency- and urgent-care centers, home care, nursing homes, mental health and blood donor services, and wellness classes. Governed by a voluntary board of community members, Inova’s mission is to improve the health of the diverse community it serves through excellence in patient care, education and research.

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