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Fighting the Impact of Health Disparities

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...

Hospital Nurses Recognized as the Region’s Best

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 &...
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Honoring Our Nurses on the Frontlines of Care

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...

Virginia Hospital Center Designated a Level II Trauma Center

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...

How the COVID-19 Fight Brought Our Community Together

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...

Donations Provide NICU Families a Chance to Bond Through New Technology

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...

Why the Women’s Health Circle Chose This Program as Its 2021 Funding Priority

Women’s Health Circle members partner with the Hospital through their personal support, community outreach and program involvement. Each year, the members choose a specific priority to receive their philanthropic dollars. For 2021, the Pharmacy Assistance Program at VHC Pediatrics — a community benefit program of Virginia Hospital Center which serves...

Girl Scouts Send Their Medical Heroes Hundreds of Girl Scouts Cookies

Virginia Hospital Center is humbled to have been adopted by local Girl Scout troops as their Hometown Hero. Girl Scout groups participating in their Hometown Heroes program encouraged their 30 troops to recognize the Hospital. Barbara Studenmund bought 24 boxes of cookies from Troop 3185. “I was looking for a...