U.S. News & World Report Names Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Among Best in Washington, DC Area

Washington DC – July 21, 2015 – Inova Fair Oaks Hospital has been ranked the #3 Best Hospital in the Washington, DC metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report. The 2015 ranking is up from #9 in 2014. The hospital also ranked #9 in Virginia, up from #14 last year. The annual U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 26th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients.

“We could not achieve this level of success and improvement without the hard work and dedication that our staff, physicians and volunteers provide every day to deliver world-class care to our patients and our community,“ John Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer, Inova Fair Oaks Hospital.

Inova Fair Oaks Hospital earned a high-performing specialty ranking in Orthopedics. U.S. News & World Report this year evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide on common inpatient procedures and conditions. Inova Fair Oaks Hospital received high-performing ratings in hip replacement, knee replacement, and heart failure. Only about 10 percent of the hospitals were rated as high performers.

For 2015-16, U.S. News evaluated hospitals in 16 adult specialties and ranked the top 50 in most of the specialties. Less than 3 percent of the nearly 5,000 hospitals that were analyzed for Best Hospitals 2015-16 were nationally ranked in even one specialty.

“A Best Hospital has demonstrated expertise in treating the most challenging patients,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis at U.S. News. “A hospital that emerged from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of.”

In rankings by state and metro area, U.S. News recognized hospitals that perform nearly at the level of their nationally ranked peers in one or more specialties, as well as hospitals that excel in multiple common procedures and conditions.

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 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. U.S. News used the same data, as well as the new Best Hospitals for Common Care ratings, first published in May, to produce 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 2016” guidebook, available in August from the U.S. News Store.

Media Contact: Tracy Connell, tracy.connell@inova.org