U.S. News & World Report Names Inova Fairfax Medical Campus #1 in D.C. Metro Area Four Years in a Row

Hospital earns national ranking in Gynecology (#30)

Washington DC – July 21, 2015 – For the fourth consecutive year, 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 earned national recognition in Gynecology, rising to #30 in the nation. The annual U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings, now in their 26th year, recognize hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients.

“To be named the number one hospital in the D.C. area for the fourth year running is an incredible accomplishment,” said Patrick Christiansen, PhD, chief executive officer, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus. “The recognition by U.S. News & World Report underscores the dedication of our physicians, nurses and staff to meet the unique needs of each person we are privileged to serve – every time, every touch.”

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

• Cancer
• Cardiology and Heart Surgery
• Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
• Geriatrics
• Nephrology
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Pulmonology
• Urology

U.S. News & World Report this year, for the first time, evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide on common inpatient procedures and conditions.  Inova Fairfax Medical Campus received high-performing ratings in heart bypass and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).  Only about 10 percent of the hospitals were rated as high performers.

In the recently released U.S. News Best Children’s Hospital Rankings, Inova Children’s Hospital was named the 29th best in the nation in Neonatology – up from 42nd in 2014 – and 47th in Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery.

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