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For the 10th year in a row, Healthgrades has selected Virginia Hospital Center to receive the 2021 Outstanding Patient Experience Award. This distinction places us in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide for patient experience. As one grateful patient, Haddis M. Yazew of Woodbridge, says, “I was admitted at Virginia...

With your generosity, Virginia Hospital Center Foundation’s For Our Neighbors Fund is ensuring everyone in Northern Virginia has access to the highest quality of care, regardless of their financial status. This health equity fund has raised over $125,000 to date to help close gaps in healthcare and support the Hospital’s...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses served on the frontlines caring for patients. Five members of our nursing team were selected by Washingtonian Magazine to receive Excellence in Nursing Awards for 2021: Meghan Bozzelli, BSN, RN, CEN, Patient Care Director, Emergency Department Melody Dickerson, MSN, RN, CPHQ, Senior Vice President &...

The Friends of Nursing Program — supported entirely from Hospital donors since 1989 — provides Virginia Hospital Center nurses with the ability to further their education through conferences, workshops, and specialty training and certification classes. In 2021, 28 nurses were awarded with continuing education opportunities through the program. It’s yet...

Minutes matter when responding to a traumatic injury. But there wasn’t an emergency department between Fairfax, Virginia and Washington, DC dedicated to treating trauma patients — until now. To bring this critical emergency care to our community, Virginia Hospital Center’s Emergency Department was recently designated as a Level II Trauma...

Virginia Hospital Center has received an extraordinary gift of $5 million from long-time donor Lola Reinsch in support of the Hospital’s Outpatient Pavilion, the first major expansion of the Hospital since 2004. The gift is the second highest the Hospital has ever received. The new seven-story Outpatient Pavilion anticipates the...

Virginia Hospital Center dedicated the VHC Pediatrics Care Coordinators Office in recognition of the Vicky Collins Charitable Foundation for their longstanding philanthropic support of VHC Pediatrics, which has totaled $2.4 million since 2005. Each year, VHC pediatrics cares for 3,700 infants and children in Arlington County who live at or...

When Virginia Hospital Center Foundation reached out to the community to help fight COVID-19 and support frontline healthcare workers, the response was overwhelming and heartwarming. As restaurants closed, the Foundation partnered with the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization (CPRO) to launch the “Buy a Nurse Lunch” program. From March-December 2020, CPRO...

Having a critically ill newborn is a harrowing experience. But for Alison and Josh Stern, what made it even harder were the times when they couldn’t be with their new baby in person. To address this situation — one that so many parents face — the Sterns started a fundraising...