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Inova Fairfax Hospital (IFH) itself is an 833-bed tertiary care hospital, which houses Northern Virginia's only Level 1 Trauma Center (for treating the most critically injured patients), the nation's fifth busiest obstetrics program (with nearly 12,000 live births in 2006), and is one of only six community hospitals in the nation offering the full spectrum of organ transplantation. It is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the Washington, D.C., area and nationwide, being named among the top 50 hospitals for gastrointestinal disorders, gynecology, and heart & heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, at the age of 71, received a heart transplant Saturday March 24, 2012, at this facility.
Inova Fairfax Hospital is also a satellite clinical campus for students from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine and hosts residents from universities such as the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and George Washington University. The hospital also houses the VCU School of Pharmacy’s Inova Campus in which students can complete their third and forth years of training. IFH has also hosted medical and nursing students from George Washington, Howard, Georgetown, George Mason and Marymount Universities, as well as Northern Virginia Community College.
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