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VHC Health has opened a roughly 5,000-square-foot women’s health center in Tysons, extending services that drew more than 44,000 patients to its Arlington location in 2025.
The nonprofit health system began seeing patients Feb. 24 at the Charlotte S. Benjamin Center for Women’s Health, located in the Tysons Pavilion at 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 210. VHC and local officials marked the expansion with an April 9 ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The center offers obstetrics and gynecology, mammography, maternity and childbirth care, menopause support, maternal-fetal medicine and a laboratory. It also includes a procedure room for surgeries and space for urogynecology and gynecologic oncology.
VHC was still recruiting a urogynecology provider as of April 13. The specialty focuses on pelvic health conditions.
The Tysons office is the first expansion of the Benjamin Center since it opened in November 2023 inside a $250 million outpatient pavilion on VHC’s main Arlington campus. That location can handle 250 to 300 patients per day, according to Sharon Brickhouse Martin, VHC’s vice president of health services integration.
Martin said the Arlington center’s heavy patient volume demonstrated demand for another location. She added that patients already booking appointments in Tysons have responded positively to the care and environment.
VHC selected the Tysons Pavilion in part because it owns the building, which it purchased for $21.5 million in 2015, according to Fairfax County property records. The property also had some existing OB-GYN services and gained a 21,000-square-foot imaging and cardiovascular diagnostics center last fall.
Opening the Benjamin Center in Tysons allowed VHC to consolidate regional services while expanding the range of care available in one place. Its Vienna office at 527 Maple Avenue East no longer houses an OB-GYN practice. VHC also operates a nearby primary care clinic at 6862 Elm Street in McLean.
Locating maternal-fetal medicine providers alongside obstetricians is intended to improve coordination for patients who need their health managed across specialties. Martin said patients have repeatedly expressed appreciation for having OB-GYN, menopause, breast surgery, urogynecology, gynecologic oncology and maternal-fetal medicine services together.
$1 Million Fund Planned for Uninsured Patients
VHC also announced a $1 million endowment designed to help patients with little or no health insurance receive services at its Arlington and Tysons women’s centers.
The VHC Health Foundation expects the fund to be fully endowed by the end of 2026 and begin supporting care in 2027, according to foundation President Amy Ellis Hauser, who is also a senior vice president at VHC Health. The foundation plans to seek additional donations over time.
Hauser said uninsured and underinsured women reach VHC through its outpatient clinic, emergency department and community organizations such as the Arlington Free Clinic. The endowment is intended to expand access for those patients.
VHC may eventually bring the women’s health center farther south, potentially to the Alexandria area. The health system already has offices in Kingstowne, the West End and Old Town.
Separately, VHC is building a freestanding emergency department at 7234 Arlington Boulevard in West Falls Church, replacing the Graham Center strip mall. The facility will provide emergency and urgent care services, with occupancy anticipated around the middle of 2027.
Providence District Supervisor Dalia Palchik, who attended the Tysons ribbon-cutting, said the new center will allow residents to receive care closer to where they live and work. She also welcomed VHC’s investment in the endowment and the future Graham Center facility.