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Flu season impacts visitors at some area hospitals

WASHINGTON — This flu season is not only making people sick, it’s also impacting those trying to visit patients at local hospitals. Although the measures are temporary, Inova Loudoun Hospital has put restrictions in place on visits to patients. The measures are due to an increase in the number of flu cases.

“As you know we’re in the middle of the flu season here, ” says Jane Donaldson, director of communications at Inova Health System. The

Inova Fair Oaks Hospital and Inova Fairfax Hospital currently have visitor limitations in place as well. But the hospitals will reassess on a weekly basis.

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