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In the early 1950s, residents of Fairfax County, Virginia, perceived a need for a community hospital, as county residents were forced to travel to Arlington, Alexandria, or Washington, D.C., to obtain hospital services and care. [8] [9] The Fairfax County Hospital Commission incorporated the Fairfax Hospital Association (FHA) in February 1956.
Inova Fairfax Hospital (IFH) is a 923-bed tertiary care hospital campus providing most medical and surgical specialties and houses Northern Virginia's only Level 1 Trauma Center and the nation's fifth-busiest obstetrics program (with nearly 12,000 live births in 2006).
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Founded in 1872 as the Alexandria Infirmary, it became part of Northern Virginia's Inova Health System in 1997. The hospital is notable for its early contributions in the field of emergency medicine , introducing a 24-hour-a-day emergency department staffed by physicians that has since become the model for emergency care in the United States.
The University of Virginia Cancer Center was founded in 1984 and has been NCI-designated since 1987. [7] This status is reviewed every five years. [8] Its comprehensive designation became effective February 1, 2022.
Eastern Virginia Medical School accepted its first MD students who matriculated September 28, 1973 for classes that began October 1, 1973. The following year, the EVMS Office of Graduate Medical Education was established to coordinate residency and fellowship training programs.
Founded in 1974, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center is a non-profit organization part of Virginia Commonwealth University.Located in Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the nation's top research universities, and VCU Medical Center, a leading academic health system ranked Virginia's top hospital by U.S. News & World Report in 2012.
Carilion Clinic is a Roanoke, Virginia-based non-profit integrated health care organization.Carilion owns and operates seven hospitals in the western part of Virginia, a nursing undergraduate program at Radford University Carilion, and a joint-venture medical school and research institute with Virginia Tech known as the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.