An Inova urgent care center is now open at 1488 North Point Village Center.

The newest Reston location is open seven days a week and offers pediatric emergency services. On-site exam rooms and x-ray and real-time interpretations by experts with the Association of Alexandria Radiologists are also offered.

The center takes up the former location of Ravel Dance Studio, which left its home of 20 years to relocate to a larger studio at 1763 Fountain Drive.

Other services include treatment for minor illness and injury, lab tests, sports physicals, and flu shots.

The center’s first day of business was on Monday (August 13).

An Inova emergency room center, which focuses primarily on emergency room services through a partnership with Inova Fairfax Hospital, is located just 1.2 miles away at 11901 Baron Cameron Avenue.

Photo by Fatimah Waseem

An Inova Urgent Care center is coming to 1488 North Point Village Center, roughly 1.7 miles away from Reston Hospital Center.

The center, which is certified by the Urgent Care Association of America and is open everyday, is “coming soon,” will provide adult and pediatric urgent care. 

It is expected to open in June or July this year, according to Roger Raker, a spokesperson for Inova.

Inova is moving into the former location of Ravel Dance Studio, which left its home of 20 years to relocate to a larger studio at 1763 Fountain Drive.

Centers are located throughout Northern Virginia, including Vienna, Fairfax, and Chantilly.

Photos by Fatimah Waseem

The prisoner who escaped from authorities at Inova Fairfax Hospital early Tuesday, allegedly stole two cars in his getaway and led Fairfax County Police on a widespread chase has been captured in the District, Fairfax County Police Chief Ed Roessler said.

Roessler said Wossen Assaye, 42, was arrested by federal authorities in Arlington last week for a series of bank robberies in Northern Virginia. He is a suspect in a dozen bank robberies in the area from October of 2013 to March 2015, FBI officials said.

Assaye was taken to the hospital from Alexandria City Jail over the weekend after he attempted to hang himself with a bedsheet at the jail.

“I want to thank our community, in Fairfax and in the entire region,” Roessler said at a press conference Tuesday. “An alert community member alerted us and led to arrest … a violent felon is no longer on the streets.”

Despite being in shackles, Assaye allegedly overpowered a female private security guard about 3 a.m. after the second guard left the room.

One shot was fired, but no one was injured, Roessler said. Assaye, carrying the guard’s gun, fled the hospital wearing only a hospital gown and no shoes, authorities said. Roessler said it was not known who fired the shot.

A manhunt ensued throughout the morning in Fairfax County, and Assaye was caught at Minnesota Avenue near 25th Street SE in DC after 11 a.m.

Roads around Fairfax Hospital were closed for part of the morning, and Roessler said police searched the hospital.

But Assaye had already run through nearby woods to a residential neighborhood near the hospital. He broke into the trunk of a resident’s car, a 2002 Toyota. When the car owner got into the car to commute to work, Assaye carjacked the woman. The woman was slightly injured and treated, police said.

Shortly after 7 a.m., Assaye allegedly carjacked another car, a Hyundai, at Backlick Road and Cindy Lane. As of noon Tuesday, police had not recovered the second car.

Assaye will appear on new charges in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria at 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Photo: Wossen Assaye/FCPD

(Update, 6 p.m. Tuesday). Virginia Hospital Center has issued a statement about the incident. Read it on ARLnow.com.

The woman suspected of having Ebola and taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital on Friday was taken there from the Pentagon because the nearest facility, Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, refused to treat her, ARLnow.com reports.

The Arlington County Fire Department told ARLnow.com that VHC refused the woman — who at the time was thought to potentially have the deadly Ebola virus — when medics brought her to the hospital. She never left the ambulance.

“We were turned away,” said ACFD spokeswoman Lt. Sarah Marchegiani. “We followed our protocol and brought the patient to the closest hospital (VHC), at which point we were rerouted to Fairfax Inova.”

The woman, who was not identified, vomited on a tour bus near the Pentagon Friday morning and set off quarantines across the region. Medical officials said late Friday the woman did not have Ebola. They also said she had not traveled to West Africa, as she first told authorities.

“Based on the public health investigation, which included the travel history of a woman who became ill this morning in a Pentagon parking lot, and on questioning of her by medical staff, medical authorities are confident that she does not have Ebola,” officials said in a statement.

However, the situation brings up questions on whether hospitals in the area — and across the United States — are prepared to handle Ebola. Earlier this month, VHC said it was prepared for Ebola patients.

Said the hospital in a statement:

“Virginia Hospital Center wants to reassure our community that the Hospital has the infrastructure and procedures already in place to screen, and if necessary, isolate, test and treat all high-risk patients. We drill and prepare for just such situations; therefore, our staff is highly trained to take appropriate precautions for a suspected and/or confirmed Ebola case.

A multi-disciplinary task force has reviewed our infection control guidelines and reinforced education of the Hospital staff to ensure it can detect a patient with Ebola Virus Disease, protect all healthcare workers so they can safely care for the patient, and respond to the patient in a timely manner.”

Witnesses told ARLnow.com there was a “heated exchange” between the emergency physician and hospital administration inside the emergency room while the patient waited in the ambulance. The tipster also claims hospital administration worried it would lose business if it came to be seen as an “Ebola hospital.”

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control on Monday issued new guidelines for health care facilities after it was determined staffers at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas were not given proper guidance when treating Thomas Eric Duncan, a man who had recently traveled to Liberia, when he presented with Ebola symptoms. Duncan has since died, and two nurses who treated him are also being treated for the disease.

Reston Hospital Center and Inova Fairfax said last week they are taking extra precautions should an Ebola case need treatment here.

ARLnow.com reporters contributed to this article.