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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).
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.
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The hospital features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center , the only one in the District of Columbia. [ 5 ]
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The hospital treats infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 [2] [3] [4] and even some adults who require pediatric care. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] CHKD is a 206-bed hospital and serves the medical and surgical needs of children throughout the greater Hampton Roads metro area, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina .
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 census, [1] it is the most populous county in Virginia, the most populous jurisdiction in the Washington metropolitan area, and the most populous location in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
Fairfax, Virginia (/ ˈ f ɛər f æ k s / FAIR-faks), [a] is an independent city in Virginia and the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,536. [5] Fairfax is part of both the Washington metropolitan area and Northern Virginia regions.
[2] [3] CHOR also has a helipad to transport critically ill pediatric patients. Children's Hospital of Richmond features the only pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center in the region and the state. [4] The hospital is rated as the second best children's hospital in Virginia on the 2020-21 U.S. News & World Report.