Thursday, February 28, 2013
Application deadline is April 10; applicants must live or work in Loudoun and be enrolled in an accredited college.
The Ladies Board of Inova Loudoun Hospital is seeking Loudoun County residents or Loudoun County employees to apply for a nursing scholarship. The application deadline is Wednesday, April 10. The Ladies Board has been awarding nursing scholarships since 1959 when an initial sixteen scholarships were awarded. Last year, they awarded 77 scholarships in amounts from $700 to $1,800, including two special scholarship awards of $5,000 each to celebrate Inova Loudoun's 100th Anniversary. Through the sales at the Hospital Gift Shop and Twice Is Nice Thrift Shop in Leesburg, the Lights of Love Remembrance program and its annual Rummage Sale, the Ladies Board is able to help the community and Inova Loudoun Hospital provide educations, in addition …
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Proceeds from the book series released in September provided for the $18,000 gift.
A dog named Beamer delivered an $18,000 donation to Inova Loudoun Hospital Monday. Well, sort of. Cindy Chambers, an Inova Loudoun Hospital board member, wrote a book series intended to help kids meet the wonderful doctors and other health professionals who work at the hospital. Chambers wanted children to read the books and become more aware of how a hospital works and the machinery they may encounter, to make visits less intimidating. The four-book Beamer Book Series features a dog –you guessed it, named Beamer – as the main character. In the books, Beamer introduces the people he meets while working as a therapy dog in the hospital. Chambers has dedicated all of the book series’ proceeds to charity. The first donation of $18,000 was …
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Clips showcase hospital's history, interviews doctors.
Inova Loudoun Hospital is honoring its 100th anniversary, and to celebrate, has released a commemorative video that gives local residents a glimpse at how the award-winning facility came to be. "The video depicts the community hospital’s first 100 years, 'that opened in a rented house with one hundred dollars in the bank.' Transposing photos of old Loudoun with those of today, one can see the strength of the Loudoun community that has survived to the present day," the hospital wrote in an announcement about the celebration. The hospital first opened in 1912 as Leesburg Hospital, officials say. Over the years, it became part of the Inova Health system, a journey documented in the video. "A montage of clips including community leaders and …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Two clinics celebrated grand openings Monday.
Inova Loudoun Hospital celebrated two of its newest services Monday during a grand opening event of two new clinics – the Inova Discharge Planning Clinic and the Inova Juniper Program, which are located in the Jackson Building at Inova Loudoun Medical Campus. The Inova Discharge Planning Clinics were created to serve chronic diseases such as diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases or COPD/pneumonia, congestive heart failure or CHF and asthma. The vision for these clinics is to help transition patients who had recently been released from the hospital back into the community while preventing hospital readmissions, according to a news release. The new clinic will provide primary medical care, medication reconciliation and social work…
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Saturday's event at hospital will feature experts, healthy cooking demonstrations, massages, giveaways and more.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and to celebrate, Inova Breast Care Institute will, for the third consecutive year, host a retreat at Inova Loudoun Hospital. According to Inova Loudoun’s Breast Nurse Navigator Barbara McDonnell, each year has brought a different theme to the event. In 2010 the theme focused on young women with breast cancer; in 2011, the focus was breast cancer and family genes. It’s important to know what you need to do in order to take care of yourself following a diagnosis, McDonnell said, hence this year's theme. “It’s a really intense experience that you go through when you’re diagnosed,” McDonnell said. As a survivor who was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2008, McDonnell said patients can't let breast…
Thursday, July 19, 2012
All Inova hospitals ranked in the top 20, according to the annual report, which was released Monday.
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
U.S. News & World Report released its annual Best Hospitals rankings on Monday and named Inova Loudoun Hospital as No. 8 in the Washington DC metro area. Inova Loudoun Hospital is ranked No. 11 in Virginia and is recognized among the Best Hospitals in Northern Virginia. All of Inova Health System’s five hospitals advanced to the top 20 with four in the top ten. Inova Fairfax Hospital is #1 on the list. This year’s Best Hospitals, the 23rd annual edition, showcases more than 720 of the nation’s roughly 5,000 hospitals. Fewer than 150 are nationally ranked in at least one of 16 medical specialties. The rest of the recognized hospitals met a standard of performance nearly as demanding in one or more specialties. “Inova is reinventing …
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A free family event was held at Ida Lee Park on Saturday to celebrate the local hospital's achievement.
Inova Loudoun Hospital celebrated its 100th birthday Saturday at a free centennial celebration at Ida Lee Park. Guests enjoyed a variety of activities including
jugglers, stilt walkers, a caricature and balloon artist, a rock wall, and teddy bear clinic. Appearances were made by the Hounds mascot and the Chick-fil-A cow, who passed out free giveaway coupons. In addition, guests participated in a Guinness Book of World Records attempt of the most people wearing a surgical mask at one time. Spokesperson Renee Brohard said that only one person was needed to make the attempt possible. The total amount of participants was still unknown by deadline. -------------------- Got pictures? Feel free to upload them to the gallery.
Friday, June 22, 2012
The family event will take place at Ida Lee Park this Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.
Inova Loudoun Hospital turned 100 years old on June 5 and to celebrate they will host a free centennial celebration at Ida Lee Park this Saturday. Community Affairs Executive Donna Fortier said that the event will be themed to the early 1900s. There will be a number of historical facts that will represent how things were when Inova Loudoun first opened to the public. Guests can enjoy a variety of activities including
jugglers, stilt walkers, a caricature artist, rock wall, and a teddy bear clinic. There will be appearances by a period impersonator and sports mascots in addition to exhibitors, a photo booth and giveaways. “Since we have been providing service to Loudoun County for 100 years we wanted to say thank you to the community for …
Friday, April 27, 2012
An open house was held on Thursday, April 26, to officially welcome the new center to Loudoun County.
Inova Loudoun showed of its new Antenatal Testing Center during an open house Thursday, April 26. The center, which officially opened April 12, offers the latest technology for evaluating and monitoring high-risk pregnancies, which might include women who have diabetes, high blood pressure or cardiac diseases, among other things. During the event, Patient Care Director for Labor and Delivery and Perinatal Services Cindy Andrejasich said that women will now have the ability to receive antenatal, or prenatal, testing in Loudoun County. In the past, patients would have to travel to Inova Fairfax Hospital, she said, in order to receive these services. “Fairfax is wonderful and we will continue to utilize Fairfax,” Andrejasich said. “However, …
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Hope program will be accepting donations beginning Friday, Feb. 24.
Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Hope program is hosting a number of donation drives beginning this Friday, Feb. 24, which will benefit at-risk youth who live in Loudoun County. Last month, during a check presentation for Mobile Hope, Community Affairs Executive and Director Donna Fortier said there were at least 650 homeless children that had been identified last spring. There could be more, she said, which is an unfortunate number based on the area we live in. On Tuesday, Spokesperson Renee Brohard said donations for Mobile Hope will be collected monthly, between 6 and 8 p.m., on the first Monday and the last Friday of the month at Inova Loudoun Medical Campus, located at 224 Cornwall St., NW, in Leesburg. Current needs include personal…
Jerry Kruger
2:02 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The last time I went to any hospital was when I was caught for DUI in Charlestown, West Virginia. God, them cops gave me a beating, because I had a blood alcohol level of at least a .324 that night I tell ya! I was gonna charge for police brutality and sexual molestation, but they got me on the dash camera falling down into the gully, retrieving me, and stripping me of my clothing because of the … more ›