The thousands of patients who visit VHC Health in Arlington for pregnancy-related services and other women’s health needs can now find similar care in Tysons.
The nonprofit health system celebrated the launch of a new location for the Charlotte S. Benjamin Center for Women’s Health at its Tysons Pavilion (1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 210) with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 9.
Officially opened to patients on Feb. 24, the approximately 5,000-square-foot site represents the first expansion of the Benjamin Center since its debut in November 2023 as part of a $250 million outpatient pavilion on VHC Health’s main Arlington campus.
“We definitely already are booking patients and, again, getting really good feedback on not just the environment, feeling safe and respectful and providing comprehensive care, but also on the quality of the care that they’re receiving,” VHC Health Vice President of Health Services Integration Sharon Brickhouse Martin said.
Services available at the new center include obstetrics and gynecology, mammography, maternity and childbirth care, and menopause support. Urogynecology for pelvic issues will be added as well, but as of Monday (April 13), VHC was still recruiting a provider for that service.
Named after longtime VHC board member Charlotte S. Benjamin, the women’s health center in Arlington served more than 44,000 patients in 2025, according to a press release. It sees as many as 250 to 300 patients a day, Martin says.
“So, the need was there,” she told FFXnow. “That’s really what pushed us to know that we could support an expansion and reach more women in the region.”
According to Martin, the Tysons Pavilion emerged an ideal place for an expansion because VHC owns the building, having purchased it for $21.5 million in 2015, per Fairfax County property records.
In addition, the site already offered some OBGYN services, as did VHC Health’s nearby primary care clinics in McLean (6862 Elm Street, Suite 500) and Vienna (527 Maple Avenue East, Suite 200).
Bringing the Benjamin Center to Tysons allowed the organization to consolidate services — the Vienna office no longer has an OBGYN practice — while also expanding the care that’s offered in a centralized location.
Coming on the heels of the addition of a 21,000-square-foot imaging and cardiovascular diagnostics center last fall, the Center for Women’s Health in Tysons features a menopause clinic, a co-located lab, a procedure room for surgeries, and additional space for urogynecology and gynecologic oncology services.
The center also hosts maternal-fetal medicine providers, allowing them to work closely with obstetricians to manage patients’ health.
“We think that’s very unique in the region to have a center that you can see not just OBGYN, but [maternal-fetal medicine], breast surgery care, urogyn, GYN oncology and menopause,” Martin said. “Those services all located in one place is something special that our women patients have expressed over and over again, that they’re very appreciative of.”
On top of expanding the Benjamin Center’s geographic reach, VHC hopes to reduce economic barriers with a newly established endowment fund that will enable both locations to provide services to patients with limited or no health insurance.
Announced at the ribbon-cutting in Tysons last week, the $1 million fund overseen by the philanthropic VHC Health Foundation is expected to be fully endowed by the end of this year, setting the stage for a launch in 2027, says Amy Ellis Hauser, the senior vice president for VHC Health and its foundation’s president.
The foundation’s goal is to continue adding to the fund over the years by attracting more donations.
“We do have women who are underinsured or uninsured, who are utilizing the hospital, coming in through the outpatient clinic, coming in through the ER, coming in from another community organization like the Arlington Free Clinic,” Hauser told FFXnow. “They’re coming here, and they need our care, and with this endowment, we will be able to provide more access for these underinsured or uninsured women.”
With the Tysons site up and running, Martin says VHC hopes to eventually expand its women’s health center to the south, possibly in the Alexandria area, where the health system has offices in Kingstowne, the West End and Old Town.
While not focused on women’s health, construction is underway on a new freestanding emergency department in West Falls Church. Replacing the Graham Center strip mall at 7234 Arlington Blvd, the department will provide both emergency room and urgent care services.
VHC anticipates the facility will begin occupancy around the middle of 2027, Martin says.
Providence District Supervisor Dalia Palchik, who represents most of Tysons and attended last week’s ribbon-cutting, praised VHC’s willingness to invest in Northern Virginia through new facilities as well as the newly announced endowment fund.
“I’ve long been a proponent of accessible community health infrastructure, and this facility allows residents to get the care they need close to where they live and work,” Palchik said of the women’s health center in Tysons. “… I’m looking forward to VHC’s further commitment to community health in Providence District through the development of the forthcoming VHC Health Graham Center.”
