IPMDC doctors and locations
Please visit ipmdc.org/about/
for information about our doctors and the locations where they see patients. They can also see patients via telehealth!
To schedule an appointment please call 571.472.4200.
Communicating
With Your Doctor
– MyChart
The best way to communicate with your doctor between appointments is to send a message through the MyChart portal.
If you’re not sure how to set up your account, or have questions about how to use it, please refer to www.inova.org/patients-visitors/mychart/faq.
Inova Get Care
When you’re coping with a health care crisis, it’s hard to know where to go.
Emergency care? Urgent care? Primary care?
With respiratory season in full swing, Inova is launching a new Get Care campaign aimed to educate patients about services offered at Inova’s emergency rooms, urgent care sites and primary care locations.
Please visit inova.org/getcare for a guide to finding the care option that’s right for you.
Dispatch Health
Same-day, in-home medical care now available in Northern Virginia.
Additional details at: www.inova.org/our-services/dispatchhealth-urgent-care-home
Urgent Care Medical Care – In the Comfort of Your Own Home
Inova has teamed up with DispatchHealth to bring same-day medical care to your home for urgent, but non-life-threatening health issues. DispatchHealth is an extension of your Inova medical care team, and their expert teams are ready to deliver high-quality, convenient care when you can’t leave home or when your doctor’s office is closed.
DispatchHealth treats 95% of the most common ER diagnoses in the comfort of your home—often at the same cost as an urgent care visit. Serving the Northern Virginia community 365 days a year, including weekends and holidays.
Communicating – deaf and hard of hearing persons
Our thanks to our friends at the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons for this communication card!
nvrc.org/
A couple of apps for smart phones that can help with transcribing a conversation:
Live Transcribe (Android)
Otter (Apple)
Medications: Patient Support Programs
Please visit ipmdc.org/medications.
Skin Biopsy test to help diagnose Parkinson’s
Zoom webinar
November 14, 2023
Host and Moderator: Steve Gurney, Positive Aging Sourcebook.
Speakers: Bryant Decker RN, BSN with CND Life Sciences,
Dr. Drew Falconer, Medical Director, Inova Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center
Learn about the SYN-ONE TEST®, a skin biopsy test that provides accurate pathological evidence to aid in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with clinical features suggestive of a synucleinopathy like Parkinson’s disease and related disorders.
Please click here to watch the recording, as well as view the questions and comments in chat.
Managing a Healthcare Crisis
Click here to watch the recording of Understanding Aging Life Care Management on the Positive Aging site.
To find an Aging Life Care Manager near you:
www.aginglifecare.org/
Heather Suri BSN RN CMC gave a talk on this topic in August 2022. Here’s her PowerPoint:
Legal documents
In her talk, Heather talks about certain legal documents that you will need to prepare. If you’d like to learn more about how an elder law attorney can help you, please click here to view webinars on the Positive Aging website.
Other resources are:
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA)
National POLST for Portable Medical Orders