Inova this week announced that Rina Bansal, MD, MBA has been named president of Inova Alexandria Hospital. She takes on this role after serving as acting president since November 2018.
“Dr. Bansal exemplifies Inova’s values of Excellence and One Team in her ability to bring her teams together to achieve quality, safety and patient experience objectives,” said J. Stephen Jones, MD, president and CEO, Inova. “Her passion is to serve the community and optimize health and wellness; I look forward to working with her as we build one of the leading health systems in the nation.”
Dr. Bansal joined Inova in 2008 as a hospitalist at Inova Fairfax Hospital. In 2010, she joined the Department of Neurosciences to create and lead the CNS Hospitalist Program and implemented many initiatives to improve continuity and coordination of care for neurosciences patients. In 2014, she served as Interim Chief Medical Officer and subsequently Associate Chief Medical Officer at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus. During that time, she also served as the Medical Director of the Inova Telemedicine Program. In 2016, Dr. Bansal assumed the Chief Medical Officer role at Inova Alexandria Hospital.
Dr. Bansal was in the inaugural class of McGill University’s MD-MBA program and obtained both a Doctorate in Medicine and a Master of Business Administration in 2001. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency Program at University of California, San Francisco.
Earlier this year, Inova Alexandria earned four stars from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and received an A grade and Top Hospital designation from the Leapfrog Group.