Category: covid19

On Thursday, May 14, 2020, Amazon made a different kind of delivery in Arlington. It wasn’t an order placed on the online retail giant’s website. Instead, the company sent 1,753 pre-prepared meals to healthcare workers at Virginia Hospital Center. READ FULL ARTICLE

Amazon will donate more than 1,750 lunches to health care workers at Virginia Hospital Center on May 14, and it is buying the meals from businesses along Crystal City’s 23rd Street South restaurant row. Amazon has pledged to buy a total of 10,000 meals from Arlington restaurants in May, giving...

In honor of National Hospital Week, Tony Burchard, President of the Virginia Hospital Center Foundation, spoke to FOX 5 DC about the messages of support and contributions that VHC has received from the community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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If you’ve been putting off an important diagnostic test or surgery because of the coronavirus, doctors at Virginia Hospital Center urge you to go ahead and schedule it now that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has given hospitals the green light to resume elective medical procedures. READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Dr. Rohit Modak, VHC’s Chief of Infectious Diseases, spoke to the Richmond Times Dispatch about the state of COVID-19 cases at VHC and the Hospital’s plans for balancing providing regular medical care with preparing for a possible future surge in COVID-19 READ THE FULL STORY

We were incredibly humbled by the show of support from our incredible community partners, including the Arlington County Government, Arlington County Police Department and Arlington County Fire Department. Thank you to all who came out to recognize our team members who join us on the front lines of COVID-19. We...

Virginia Hospital Center is among the first hospitals in the nation to receive the fastest available molecular point-of-care test for the detection of COVID-19. The test shows positive results for COVID-19 in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes. VHC’s Chief Medical Officer, Jeffrey DiLisi, MD,...

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