Community
As Northern Virginia's leading not-for-profit health care provider, Inova Health System is dedicated to providing quality care and improving the health of the diverse communities it serves. To achieve this goal, Inova works in partnership with other organizations, spearheading numerous community health improvement projects.
The major initiatives, all under the direction of Inova's Community Health and Cultural Competence Division, include:
- Community Access Program, funded by a grant from Health Resources and
Services
Administration, works to coordinate health services for about
45,000 uninsured
area residents.
- Congregational Health Partnership (CHP) helps faith communities organize
health ministries for their congregations and provide health promotion
and
prevention activities for their members.
- The Cultural Competence initiative strives to improve Inova's ability to
provide culturally competent health care.
- Inova HealthSource provides programs, classes,
services and
educational materials through its community-based programs, ranging
from
birth and parenting classes to its Fight the Flu campaign. Inova
HealthSource provides services to approximately 121,000 people
annually.
- The Inova
Kellar
Center is the only not-for-profit comprehensive mental health center
in Northern Virginia. As a member of the Community Health Division of
Inova
Health System, Inova Kellar Center shares a strong commitment to
service
excellence and care to the community, providing structured and
individualized
mental health, substance abuse and special education
programs and services to
children, adolescents and families.
- Operation Stroke, a partnership between Inova and the American Heart
Association, fights stroke by educating people about stroke, improving
emergency
response time, and assuring the proper diagnosis and
treatment of stroke.
- Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children's Care Connection for Children is part of a state-wide network that helps families
coordinate community and education resources with medical expertise, to
ensure
that children with special health care needs can reach their
maximum potential.
- Partnership for
Healthier Kids, an outreach program with 100 school partners and 12
business
and government-based partners, strives to link medically
underserved children
with affordable medical homes, and provide children
and their families with the
skills needed to make positive health and
wellness choices.
- Northern Virginia Perinatal Coordinating Council, composed of every hospital
and health department in Northern Virginia and led by Inova Fairfax
Hospital,
works to improve perinatal outcomes in Northern Virginia.
- Year of the Child, initiated in 2000 with 11 community partners, promotes
the building blocks of a healthy childhood.
- The Inova Health System
Foundation touches the lives of thousands of area residents by
supporting the goals of the community-based, not-for-profit Inova
Health System.
- Other Community Partnerships include the Health Information Partnership (HIP), a collaboration between Inova and Fairfax County Public Library to improve community access to health information. Through joint programs and initiatives geared toward health consumers, HIP helps bring reliable health information and services to a wider audience of Fairfax County residents.
