$152M Cardiac Center Opens

FALLS CHURCH, VA-Inova Health System has completed development of the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, a 410,000-sf hospital facility on the nonprofit healthcare provider’s Inova Fairfax Hospital campus. The price tag for the completed facility, originally estimated to be $122 million under a plan for just 280,000 sf, turned out to be $152 million.

Turner Construction Co. broke ground on the project in 2002, with William M. Brennan, senior vice president at Turner’s Washington, DC office, surmising the project at that time as “a state-of-the-art facility at which advanced heart procedures will be performed.” The new center is the Metropolitan Washington, DC area’s first medical facility dedicated exclusively to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.