Our History, Our Community & Our New Potomac Hospital
Established in 1972, Potomac Hospital is a 183-bed, not-for-profit community hospital led by a local volunteer Board of Directors. As an affiliate of Inova Health System, Potomac enjoys many of the advantages of a larger healthcare system while we maintain our independent status so that our board members can make decisions based solely on what’s best for our community.
Potomac Hospital’s our total service area population exceeds 370,000, encompassing eastern Prince William, southern Fairfax and northern Stafford Counties.
A new $71 million, 180,000-square-foot patient care facility opened in March 2006 on our campus to replace our original medical surgical building, built in 1972, and our critical care unit. Our new four-story facility includes the Garden Café and Hylton Education Center on the Garden Level and three levels dedicated to patient care. All patient rooms in the new facility (including an additional 30 beds) are private.
Hospital-Based Patient Care Services
Located on Level 1 of the new Potomac Hospital is our 16-bed Intensive Care Unit, 8-bed Intermediate Care and 24-bed Progressive Care Unit, all complete with telemetry.
Medicine/Hematology/Oncology/Hospice, located on Level 2, includes a 12-bed Hematology/ Oncology Unit, dedicated Hospice suite (featuring four private patient rooms and family support area), six-bed outpatient infusion center providing chemotherapy, blood transfusion, hydration therapy, intravenous antibiotic therapies, and injections, and a four-bed dialysis suite.
The 40-bed Surgical/Orthopedic/Bariatric Unit on Level 3 provides pre- and post-operative care to the general surgical patient with a Rehabilitation Treatment room/gym for physical and occupational therapy located on the unit.
KidsPORT, our specialty designed Pediatric Unit (a separate, secure unit also located on Level 3), has 10 beds, 24-hour in-house, board-certified pediatric staff and specialty nursing and child-friendly design features.
Women's & Children's Services include nine LDRs, two ORs, 16-bassinet nursery and a Level II Neonatal ICU with 24-hour neonatology coverage. Level III tertiary backup is with Inova Fairfax Hospital. Facilities include a private perinatal assessment suite, two L&D triage and two observation rooms, nine Labor/Delivery/Recovery rooms, an expanded nursery, transitional nursery and NICU. There were 2,326 newborn deliveries in 2007.
The Irene V. Hylton Emergency Care Center, staffed by an emergency medicine physician group, had 56,539 visits in 2007. It is complete with a stat lab and dedicated x-ray; 42 private exam rooms including two cardiac, two trauma (one equipped for pediatrics); an eight-bed dedicated pediatric treatment area called KidsCARE; an eight-bed transitional care area; six minor care rooms; and HAZMAT room.
Century Surgical Services is located in the Century Medical Building on the campus of Potomac Hospital. Three operating rooms (with outfitting for a fourth) offer state-of-the-art outpatient surgical care and technology including ceiling suspended Berchtold booms and in-room nursing documentation stations. In conjunction with Falls Church Lithrotripsy Associates LLC, Potomac Hospital offers extracorporal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) as an outpatient procedure performed by urologists at Century Surgical Services.
da Vinci Robotic-Assisted Technology – Potomac Hospital is the first facility in the Prince William area to offer state-of-the-art robotic surgical technology to patients. The da Vinci System gives surgeons unprecedented control and three-dimensional views of the body’s anatomy. The system also provides full freedom of movement at its instrument tips, allowing precise operation in a closed chest, abdomen or pelvis.
Potomac Center Outpatient Services provides endoscopy services, rhogam injections, diagnostic testing (lumbar puncture, bone marrow biopsies, thoracentesis, paracentesis, etc.) epideral blocks, removal of minor lesions, liver biopsies and other minor procedures.
The Cancer Center at Potomac Hospital, accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, offers surgical and chemotherapy services, educational programs, screening fairs, Potomac Radiation Oncology Center, Cancer Registry, cancer support groups, Look Good/Feel Better and other American Cancer Society programs, and a patient newsletter.
The Weight Loss Surgery Center at Potomac Hospital is accredited by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. The ASMBS Center of Excellence designation recognizes surgical programs with a demonstrated track record of excellent outcomes in bariatric surgery. Now in its seventh year, the program offers laparoscopic gastric banding and laparoscopic gastric bypass procedures. The surgical team has performed more than 2,000 operations.
Diagnostic & Support Services
24-hour Respiratory Therapy including neonatal respiratory capability, pulmonary function studies, arterial blood gases, and a Sleep Disorder Center operated in partnership with Georgetown University Hospital.
Radiology and Imaging Services with state-of-the-art PACS and services including diagnostic radiology, high-field MRI, spiral CT, Cardiac CT Angiography (CCTA), Mobile PET/CT, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, digital mammography, DEXA bone densitometry, and stereotactic breast biopsy.
Non-Invasive Cardiology services include electrocardiogram, echocardiography, TEE, stress echocardiography, exercise stress testing, nuclear cardiology, 24-hour Holter Monitor, EEG and diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Also available are Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR) services and Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs.
Inpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy services. Outpatient neurorehabilitative and orthopedic patients are served by physical, occupational and speech therapists at Inova Physical Therapy Center, a partnership of Potomac Hospital and Inova Health System, located in the Century Medical Building on the hospital campus.
The Diabetes Management Program is staffed by certified diabetes educators and other trained healthcare professionals. This American Diabetes Association nationally-recognized program offers individual counseling, group classes, a monthly support group and an annual Diabetes Fair.
The Care Coordination Department, staffed by registered nurses and social workers, provides assessment of the immediate needs of our patients and their families and initiates discharge plans at admission to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the options and services to meet individuals' health needs.
Health Sciences Library provides in-house access to books and journals in addition to various on-line resources including PUBMED and the Virginia Library Information Network.
At Your Request Room Service Dining® to best meet the dietary needs of all our patients.
Medical Staff: 237 Active & Associate Members representing 46 Medical Specialties
Accredited by the American Medical Association through the Medical Society of Virginia and approved for Category I credit, Potomac offers regularly scheduled Continuing Medical Education programs, plus Tumor Board, Cardiology Conference and other specialty specific CMEs.
Hospitalist Management Group – In July 2008 Potomac Hospital welcomed a team of hospitalists from Hospitalists Management Group (HMG). The hospitalist team provides medical care for unassigned adult inpatients. The physicians are in-house, 24-hours-a-day, to provide medical management and care for our patients.
Community Education and Community-Based Care
The Community Education and Health Promotion Department seeks to promote health and wellness by offering classes, seminars, and health fairs in a variety of community settings geared to participants of all ages. Courses are designed to meet the specific needs of our community. Frequent topics include asthma, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. The department employs a dedicated and diverse staff of community educators, and offers many services at no cost in order to assist residents with limited or no access to healthcare.
Community Education's Family Ties program offers Childbirth Preparation, Breastfeeding and Baby Basics educational classes and Labor & Delivery Tours.
Other Community Education services include a senior immunization program, annual skin cancer and PAD screenings, and a variety of monthly support groups. Potomac Hospital physicians are also valued members of the Community Education team and are often called upon to share their expertise for screenings, support groups and as seminar speakers.
Two Family Health Connection Mobile Clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners from Potomac Hospital who provide physical examinations, vision and hearing screenings, growth assessments, blood pressure checks, immunizations, basic medical care and health information. Combined they had 7,942 patient visits in 2007.
Potomac’s Health Connection provided 7,656 referrals to members of our medical staff, hospital and community services, and registrations for community education classes in 2007.
