What Is Signature Partners? Expand Content A pathway for physicians to transition successfully from fee-for-service to value and performance-based payments, Signature Partners is a physician-driven, select network of health care professionals and facilities. Signature Partners provides the infrastructure needed for physicians to deliver evidence-based care through clinical integration, and data sharing. Signature Partners physicians provide the governance and oversight of the network, and care coordination focused on improving care delivery. What Is clinical integration?

Signature Partners is a clinically integrated, high-performing network of providers focused on patient care. With the goal of transforming healthcare in Northern Virginia, our new model represents an important opportunity for plans to offer quality benefits and keep premiums affordable in response to healthcare reform. Payors Learn about the payors with whom we have value-based contracts.

Providers When you join the Signature Partners network, you become part of a physician-driven, select network of coordinated health care professionals and facilities. Together, we’re able to deliver evidence-based, high quality care through clinical integration. Access for Community Physicians Would you like to have access to your patients’ information during and after their hospital stay at Inova?

Beyond an occasional night when you might have trouble falling asleep, sleep disorders can affect your health and well-being more than most people realize. With at least 84 known types of sleep disorders, people who have sleep disorders experience diminished health, a lower quality of life and can become public safety risks due to the effects on driving and industrial accidents. Sleep apnea is a common sleep disorder, but there are as many as 80 other conditions that can affect the quality of your sleep and health.

When you come to us for help, we ask you to complete a survey, such as the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) questionnaire, that helps determine which additional studies are appropriate for you. You may be asked to spend the night at the center where our specially trained staff perform an overnight sleep study. Our sleep physicians use the following studies to evaluate sleep disorders: Polysomnogram An overnight sleep study to observe and monitor your breathing, heart rate and oxygen level during sleep. Multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) A daytime study that measures the speed of falling asleep.

Inova's sleep disorder teams encompass physicians trained in the field of sleep medicine, as well as technical staff including registered polysomnographic technologists who have additional experience in respiratory care, neurodiagnostics and cardiac monitoring. Scheduling A physician referral may be needed to schedule a sleep study. Call your physician and ask him or her to fax your referral to the sleep disorder clinic where you would like to make an appointment.

Support Groups Inova Alexandria Hospital hosts support groups for patients who are diagnosed with sleep-disordered breathing. For more information, call Inova Alexandria Neurodiagnostic and Sleep Assessment Center – Alexandria at 703-504-3220. Sleep Study FAQ Read our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to learn about when you should visit a sleep center, insurance, referrals, and how a sleep study works.

Are you considering getting a sleep study done? Below are some frequently asked questions (FAQ) people commonly have before visiting a sleep lab.

Inova Hospital Stroke Program Leadership Meet the highly qualified physicians who lead the stroke programs at each of our five hospitals: Laith Rafi Altaweel, MD System Medical Director, Stroke Program, Inova Neurosciences Pouya Tahsili Fahadan, MD Medical Director, Stroke Program, Inova Fairfax Hospital Dan Dinescu, MD Medical Director, Neurocritical Care, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Edward David Greenberg, MD Neurointerventional Radiology, Program Lead, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Jaswinder S.