📢 Attention everyone! 📢 We are seeing a record number of patients seeking medical attention in our emergency rooms (ERs) and hospitals. When you’re not feeling your best, it’s important to #KnowWhereToGo for the right level of care.
Know where to go: Inova.org/KnowWhereToGo
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👩👨 Primary care physician: Your first stop for non-emergency issues. Schedule an appointment for personalized care.
🩺 Urgent care centers: Quick and convenient for minor illnesses or injuries. No appointment is needed!
🏥 ER: For severe or life-threatening conditions (such as chest pain, trouble breathing, sudden weakness of body parts, uncontrolled bleeding, fainting, severe pain, or serious injury), call 911 or head to the nearest ER.
“Immunotherapy is revolutionizing how we treat many cell tumors,” Dr. John Deeken, president of the @InovaHealth Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax, Virginia, told me. Check out my latest story for @CancerTodayMag: cancertodaymag.org/spring-20…
Advancing medical education! We are thrilled to share that Inova's Shambhu Aryal, MD, FCCP, recently made an Internal Medicine Grand Rounds presentation at @MedStarWHC in Washington, DC, on "Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Challenges and Opportunities."
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Thrilled to share that Inova's Joanna Fazio & Roberta Tinch have been named to @BeckersHR's list of emerging healthcare leaders under 40.bit.ly/48f5QVa. Tracey Schroeder has earned a spot on the Chief Marketing Officers to Know list by @BeckersHR! bit.ly/489p6n9
Differences in treatment and clinical outcomes in patients aged ≥75 years compared with those aged ≤74 years following acute coronary syndromes: a prospective multicentre study: @Open_HeartBMJ
🥸Work led by @VijayKunadian on older ACS pts
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Meet Phides Oh, LMT, the newest member of our massage therapy team! Phides is a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) and Esthetician, specializing in therapeutic and stretch techniques in the DMV area for more than seven years.
Schedule an appointment: bit.ly/3Nias4h
🎅🏽What an incredible ride it was! Santa made a special journey to Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital & Inova Loudoun Hospital, delivering gifts to our wonderful pediatric patients! Thanks to everyone who joined us in spreading holiday cheer. @LoudounSheriff@FairfaxCountyPD
Bringing smiles and joy to our incredible young patients at Inova Children's!🤩 A huge shoutout to Pedro Santos from @dcunited, and Lena Silano, Lyza Bosselman, and Nicole Barnhart from @WashSpirit for visiting the kids and creating beautiful memories with them. #communitylove
This week, Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Santa, his elves, and reindeer “dropped in” to spread holiday cheer to the kids at Inova Childrens Hospital. Members of #FCFRD@FairfaxCountyPD@PWCFireRescue rappelled ten stories, stopping at windows to say hi to kids and their families.
During the holidays, crucial blood donations can be slowed, leading to a slowdown in meeting the blood supply needs! That's why the @RedCross & Inova Blood Donor Services urge local blood donors to make an appointment & give the gift of life.
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Help your patients start the new year off strong by introducing them to the wide variety of services and resources that we offer on our website: bit.ly/3PW3Dr4
Making the most of the $75 million gift from Dwight & Martha Schar to @ISHVnews! Shashank Desai, MD, Director, Strategy and Growth, Inova Schar Heart & Vascular, shares with @ChiefHealthExec how this generous donation will transform Inova's cardiac care. chiefhealthcareexecutive.com…
1 in 5 adults in the U.S. is diagnosed w/ depression, but still, many other people remain undiagnosed due to a lack of screening! We have begun routine depression screening for all patients wherever they seek care in our system. Neeta Goel, MD, discusses: bit.ly/488ZG91
More than 40% of Americans will suffer from sciatica. For Karen it was important to work with our team at Inova Spine Program to focus on reducing her sciatic pain and getting her mobile again quickly. bit.ly/3NlK35U
A study addressing the significantly higher obesity rates in the U.S. among Latino youth showed promising results! Inova partnered w/ @HealthWorksNova to conduct the study to measure the effectiveness of a family-based Spanish language virtual intervention bit.ly/3tj0BEG