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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.