Holiday Hours

With the exception of Inova hospitals, Inova Emergency Care and Inova-GoHealth Urgent Care, all Inova outpatient offices will be closed for the Christmas and New Year's Day holidays – Wednesday, Dec. 25 and Wednesday, Jan. 1.

Some Inova care sites have additional closures for the holidays, which will be noted on the relevant location pages. 

Benefits to Network Hospitals

  • 24/7 real time access to stroke specialists
  • Emergency Department acute stroke/neuroscience consultations
  • Decreased length of stay in your ED
  • Bedside follow up and Follow up appointments if needed
  • Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center certification assistance
  • Enhanced hospital reputation and good will in community

Technical and Site Requirements for Network Hospital

  • Emergency room with telephone line and Internet access
  • Videoconferencing equipment on mobile cart with monitor, PTZ camera, microphone and video server
  • Dedicated public IP address assigned to mobile cart
  • 3Mbps of available bandwidth for high quality audio and video
  • High QoS to TCP/IP traffic between telestroke cart and Inova hub
  • 24-hour CT scanner
  • 24-hour laboratory testing
  • Pharmacy that stocks tissue plasminogen activase (tPA)

Expertise from Inova Telemedicine Institute Is Offered For:

  • Telemedicine program design
  • Development of clinical protocols
  • Business process design
  • Education and training
  • Technology assessment and vendor analysis and selection