Alert for Unvaccinated Patients, New ‘Vancomycin Therapy Dosed by Pharmacy’ Order

The Inova Stonebridge Vaccination Center will permanently close on Thursday, July 1, at 3:30 p.m.

Patients seeking the vaccine can schedule an appointment at their primary care office or at another convenient location. Click here for clinics in your area.
Team members can continue to receive their first and second doses at the Stonebridge Center through July 1. If you receive your first dose at the Stonebridge Vaccination Center and are due for your second dose after the center closes, you can receive your second dose at one of our care site clinics.

Safe@Inova starts with our team members, and vaccination is the best way to keep ourselves, our patients and our families safe from COVID-19. We encourage everyone to get vaccinated today. If you are unable to get to Inova’s clinic before July 1, there are multiple sites throughout the region.

Inova’s Regional Vehicle-Side COVID-19 Testing sites in Alexandria, Ashburn and Falls Church officially close on June 7. All patients with scheduled tests after June 6 should contact their ordering provider to reschedule their test at an alternate testing location.

Pre-procedural and pre-surgical testing only alternate sites:

Inova Urgent Care Centers – appointments are required through MyChart

Inova Urgent Care Dulles South, 24801 Pinebrook Road, Suite 110, Chantilly
Inova Urgent Care North Arlington, 4600 Lee Highway, Arlington
Inova Urgent Care Tysons, 8357 Leesburg Pike, Vienna

ICL Lab sites – appointments are required through MyChart

ICL – 2832 Juniper St., Fairfax
Kenmore – 4660 Kenmore Ave., Alexandria
Endo Reston – 11901 Baron Cameron Rd., Reston (coming soon)

For all other COVID-19 testing needs, patients can go to their primary care provider or local pharmacy for testing. Non-surgical patients requesting COVID-19 testing can visit Inova Urgent Care Centers for full provider evaluation and testing as needed.

Beginning Thursday, June 3, Epic will help providers identify and counsel patients who are hesitant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This change will impact all ambulatory visits and involve a new screening (COVID-19 Vaccine Plans) and a BPA for providers if the patient indicates vaccine hesitancy.

While we have made great progress in the fight against COVID-19, we are now in hand-to-hand combat with this virus. We know that large-scale vaccination is the most effective way to reduce the prevalence, strength and virulence of the virus, minimize mutation and ultimately end the pandemic.

A screenshot of the BPA that will pop up in the next encounter is included below. It includes the orders for vaccine, a link to the hesitancy flowsheet (in case the provider wants to enter another value), and the acknowledge reason. The Vaccine Hesitancy flowsheet appears in the Screening tab only when patient do NOT have COVID-19 documented.

Beginning Thursday, June 3, physicians now have a new ordering workflow for vancomycin dosed by pharmacy. This replaces the current ‘pharmacy to dose medication’ consult order for vancomycin only. Physicians will not need to enter a separate vancomycin order when ordering the vancomycin (VANCOCIN) therapy dosed by pharmacy order. If the physician chooses to take over vancomycin dosing, this can be communicated to the pharmacy by discontinuing therapy dosed by pharmacy. If the patient no longer needs vancomycin, the physician should discontinue the consult order, as well as, subsequent vancomycin doses, labs, etc.

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On Monday, June 7, Inova will transition to PolicyStat, a new document management platform for writing, approving and posting Inova policies, procedures and supporting documents. At system go-live, PolicyStat will replace PolicyTech and the current InovaNet portal and will become the one source of truth for all Inova policies and procedures.

Team members will have easy access to search for policies via a Quick Search link, located on InovaNet. Owners, writers, editors and approvers will have full capability available to them to logging onto https://inova.policystat.com.

Until go-live, team members are invited to visit the InovaNet PolicyStat Education Page*, to view “how-to” tutorial videos and to access printable tip sheets.

Inova team members from across the system are stepping up to help our community by donating blood. Just one hour of your time can save up to three lives. Make an appointment to donate blood today and share a photo of yourself giving blood with tracy.connell@inova.org for inclusion in the weekly huddle.

Luisa Schwarz, Team Leader of Respiratory Care Services at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, recently donated blood with her family. Thank you for collectively saving nine lives!

If you’re eligible to give blood, we encourage you to take the time now to schedule your appointment, as community blood supply is still critically low.

Call 1-866-BLOODSAVES or visit https://www.inovablood.org/donate-blood/make-an-appointment/ to make your appointment,