Potomac Hospital

Hospital Profile

• Potomac Hospital is a not-for-profit, 183-bed community hospital serving Prince William County and surrounding communities.
• The service area population for Potomac Hospital exceeds 317,000 encompassing eastern Prince William, southern Fairfax and northern Stafford counties.
• Potomac Hospital's medical staff is comprised of 248 Active/Associate staff members, representing 40 medical specialties.
• Potomac Hospital is an affiliate of the Inova Health System.
• In March 2006 a new $71 million, 180,000-square-foot patient care facility opened on campus to replace the original medical surgical building. The new four-story facility includes the Garden Cafe and Hylton Education Center on the Garden Level and three levels dedicated to patient care. All patient rooms in the new facility are private.
• Potomac Hospital has a 16-bed Intensive Care Unit, 8-bed Intermediate Care and 24-bed Progressive Care Unit, all complete with telemetry.
• The Medicine/Hematology/Oncology/Hospice service includes a 12-bed Hematology/Oncology unit, dedicated Hospice suite (featuring four private rooms and family support area), a six-bed outpatient infusion center providing chemotherapy, blood transfusion, hydration therapy, intravenous antibiotic therapies, and injections, and a four-bed dialysis suite.
• Staffed by an Emergency Medicine contract group, the 42-bed Hylton Emergency Care Center at Potomac Hospital had 56, 485 visits in 2006.
• Potomac Hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.

Hospitalist Program Profile

• The Hospitalist Team of four Physicians, at Potomac Hospital, will provide inpatient care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Each full time Hospitalist will provide up to 192 hours of clinical professional medical services per month.
• The Hospitalist Team will attend adult medicine inpatients, from admission to discharge, and will provide, as necessary, a variety of procedures in the ICU, respond to codes, and complete consultations as requested.

Community

• Prince William County is rich in history and full of promise now and in the future. The third largest county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, its desirable location has attracted a highly educated work force, and is in close proximity to a host of nationally recognized colleges and universities.
• The County has an excellent public school system with 57,804 students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade as well as many fine private schools.
• Woodbridge is a suburban community that offers a wide range of choices in housing and lifestyles from town homes to country estates. Located just 25 miles south of Washington DC, the area enjoys low unemployment and a diversified economy.
• Residents enjoy four distinct seasons with an average temperature of 33 degrees in the coldest month of winter and 74 degrees in summer and easy access to the Atlantic coastline and its many getaway attractions.
• Woodbridge offers easy access to the amenities of the nation's capital to the north and the quiet tranquility of Skyline Drive to the west. The shopping, restaurants and cultural options of Washington beckon for day trips and overnights. 
• There are professional sports teams in the region including the Washington Redskins, Nationals and Blizzard teams, endless variety of historical sites including colonial manors and civil war battlefields, and access to rivers and beaches, all of which provide abundant choices in recreation and entertainment.
• Washington offers two major airports ensuring competitive airfares to destinations throughout the US and the world.
• The local Amtrak station allows for east access to Washington, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston via high speed train.