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Article: An Impatient Patient Hastens the Opening Of Fair Oaks Hospital
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- The Washington Post
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- June 7, 1987
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Fair Oaks Hospital officials were patiently waiting yesterday to
start an early-morning ceremony marking the hospital's grand opening
when an unexpected visitor arrived.
"Is the medical center open yet?" the man asked. "I've got a real
bad case of Montezuma's revenge."
The 37-year-old Chantilly man unceremoniously became the first
patient of Fair Oaks, a $27 million, 160-bed hospital designed by the
Fairfax Hospital Association to replace Commonwealth Hospital in
Fairfax City.
The new 179,000-square-foot facility on Joseph Siewick Drive in
western Fairfax County is more than double the size of the
20-year-old, 127-bed Commonwealth, which was in its final day of
operation yesterday.
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