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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Gets Consuela Back on Her Feet
Consuela Stephens is always on the go. The 74-year-old keeps busy gardening, cooking, and caring for her twin sister, who is ill. When Consuela had to have knee surgery, she expected that she’d be back to her active life in a few weeks. But while recovering, she began to have painful back spasms, which eventually…
Read MoreInova Awards Record $1 million in Health Equity Grants to Local Nonprofits
Falls Church, VA – Inova Health System has awarded $1 million in Health Equity Grants to 23 Northern Virginia nonprofit organizations, the largest level of funding to date for this grants program. The grants were awarded to organizations whose initiatives aim to improve health equity and support under-resourced communities with unmet healthcare needs. Applicants were required…
Read MoreDr. Stephen Jones: Prosecuting nurses for honest mistakes won’t make patients safer
Inova’s president and CEO J. Stephen Jones, MD, MBA, FACS had an op-ed piece published in USA Today following Friday’s sentencing of nurse RaDonda Vaught. (While working as a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2017, Vaught’s accidental administration of the wrong drug to a patient led to the patient’s death. Vaught was later…
Read MoreAspirin Use: Significant Change in National Guidelines for Taking Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently finalized new guidance advising against daily aspirin use by certain people to prevent a first heart attack or stroke – a reversal of the panel’s 2016 recommendations. In general, for people 40 to 59 years of age who are at increased risk of developing heart…
Read MoreSuperheroes “Drop In” to Cheer Up Kids at Inova Children’s Hospital
Pediatric patients were delighted yesterday to see actual superheroes scaling down the side of Inova L. J. Murphy Children’s Hospital outside their windows. The real-life heroes were members of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department who had dressed as comic book superheroes to help cheer up and inspire the young patients. Rappelling down with…
Read MoreInova Saville Cancer Screening and Prevention Center Opens in Fairfax
Leading health system introduces the region’s first dedicated cancer screening and prevention center in the Washington, DC metro region Falls Church, VA — The Inova Saville Cancer Screening and Prevention Center officially opens today in Fairfax, Virginia. Located in the pavilion of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute flagship facility at 8081 Innovation Park Drive, this…
Read MoreQuick Action and Comprehensive Care Save Sybil After Rare Stroke
Sybil Jones was a 43-year-old mother of three teenage girls, a busy entrepreneur, and the wife of a career officer in the United States Navy when the unexpected happened. She has an optimistic, laid-back personality and follows an active and healthy lifestyle. She certainly never thought she could have a stroke at such a young…
Read MoreDr. Stephen Jones: It’s time for us to step up for healthcare workers
The Richmond Times-Dispatch has published an op-ed piece by Inova President and CEO J. Stephen Jones, MD, MBA, FACS, that articulates the issue of increasing physical and emotional violence directed at healthcare workers. Jones describes several recent incidents at Inova, including a nurse being told by a patient that the patient only wanted to “be…
Read MoreAfter a Heart-Lung Transplant, a Mother Gets a Second Chance
Tandy was still in her 30s when she started experiencing shortness of breath. She was a runner, but suddenly she couldn’t run more than two minutes without having to stop. Eventually, she was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Despite medical management, her condition deteriorated rapidly. “I had stations set up in the hallway so…
Read MoreCongenital Heart Disease Patient Gets Second Surgery & Second Chance
“You need open-heart surgery.” With those five words, Scott Boccia’s world turned upside down. Scott had always been healthy and active. “I was the kid that played every sport possible. I went on to play, and later coach, college football,” he says. In his 40s, he was a busy dad to three young kids and…
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