Typhoon Help: Inova Partners with Project HOPE

Inova will send medical volunteers and resources to aid the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines through a partnership with global relief organization Project HOPE.

Inova CEO Knox Singleton announced that Northern Virginia’s largest not-for-profit health system, with more than 15,000 employees, will immediately begin an employee fundraising campaign that will deliver 100 percent of the funds raised to Project HOPE to provide aid to the people of the Phiippines devastated by Haiyan.

“Inova is stepping forward to provide leadership and resources to aid the people of the Philippines whose lives have been forever changed by this terrible typhoon,” said Singleton. “Inova is a very diverse organization with a global perspective. We have members of the Inova family from the Philippines and our heart goes out to them and their friends and family members back home.”

Inova will match the first $50,000 raised by employees. In addition, residents of the metropolitan Washington, D.C., region may pledge donations for Typhoon Haiyan relief through the Inova website (www.Inova.org).

Singleton also said Inova is encouraging members of its medical staff — physicians, nurses and other health professionals — to volunteer and deploy with teams of Project HOPE volunteers. Project HOPE announced Friday that it will send civilian medical volunteers in conjunction with the U.S. Navy’s relief mission.

“Inova has world-class physicians and researchers from all over the world. We want to serve the world and respond to healthcare needs wherever they occur across the globe,” added Singleton.

Project HOPE already has shipped medicines, medical supplies and other equipment valued at more than $1 million to the Philippines to support relief efforts. Project HOPE has more than 50 years experience in global health education and humanitarian assistance.

“Project HOPE is committed to helping meet critical health needs in the Philippines, following this terrible humanitarian disaster, and our partnership with Inova will bring valuable resources and expertise to this effort. Inova has stepped up to address the challenge when tragedy has struck at other times and in other parts of the world, and we are grateful to be working with them in assisting the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan,” said Dr. John P. Howe, President and CEO of Project HOPE.

Government and relief agencies have reported thousands of people died after Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record to make landfall, hit the country on Nov. 8. More than four million people have been impacted by the disaster and hundreds of thousands are displaced.