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Five Sentara hospitals named among Newsweek’s Best-in-State Hospitals
Five Sentara hospitals have earned recognition in Newsweek’s Best-in-State Hospitals 2025 rankings, highlighting the leading hospitals in every state.Sentara Obici Hospital hosts Franklin City Public School students
Students spent the day touring the hospital, shadowing nurses and technicians, and learning about career opportunities in healthcare.Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital announces early learning center to enhance work-life balance for employees
Designed to support employees and their families, the center will provide high-quality early childhood education and care, helping staff balance the demands of work and family life.Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center achieves accreditation as a surgery center of excellence
This accreditation recognizes Sentara's commitment and high standard of delivery of quality patient care and safety.Sentara Obici Hospital art collection is a tribute to founder’s vision
‘The legacy of Amedeo and Louise Obici lives on and perfectly aligns with Sentara’s mission to improve health every day.’Sentara patients join the American Heart Association’s 2024 Heart Walk
Teams of Sentara employees are also collecting donations to fight heart disease and stroke.Sentara apprenticeship program addresses nationwide respiratory therapy shortage
The apprenticeship allows students enrolled in the two-year respiratory therapy program at Tidewater Community College to become full-time employees while Sentara covers $18,000 worth of tuition, books, scrubs, and certification.Sentara brings ground-breaking ovarian cancer treatment to Hampton Roads
HIPEC therapy involves surgeons removing cancerous tumors, then filling the abdominal cavity with a heated chemotherapy solution to kill any remaining cancer cells.Sentara partners with Hampton and Harrisonburg school systems to launch school-based telehealth clinics
Sentara has launched an innovative school-based telehealth program, delivering acute primary care services directly to students and faculty in their schools.Sentara Medical Group to double number of advanced practice providers, increasing access
The initiative will give patients better access to primary care providers amid an ongoing national physician shortage.Embracing a holistic, human-centered approach to health care
As Sentara, we strive to create high quality, equitable, and innovative models of care delivery. That means embracing human-centered care for all.Sentara helps launch first adult sickle cell clinic in Hampton Roads
The new clinic brings specialists from general internal medicine, hospital medicine, pain management, and psychiatry under one roof to treat adults with sickle cell disease, which is one of the most common genetic disorders in the U.S.Sentara Foundation launches fundraising campaign for two additional mammography vans
The initiative will expand access to the lifesaving benefits of early breast cancer detection.Local artist dedicates mural at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
People entering or exiting the hospital through are now surrounded by a vibrant mural of flowers, butterflies, and diverse faces of people giving and receiving compassionate care.Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital breaks ground on new hospital
In a major milestone for the region, Sentara broke ground on the new Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility set to open in Summer 2026.Sentara hosts free community drive-thru flu clinics across Virginia and northeast North Carolina
Sentara will host multiple free drive-thru flu vaccination clinics on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 8 a.m. to noon across Virginia and northeast North Carolina.Sentara decreases mortality rate for sepsis by 37%
Sentara’s clinicians introduced new protocols to detect and treat sepsis, the body's extreme and potentially deadly response to an infection entering the bloodstream.VB Strong Center to continue providing services through September 2024
After multiple extensions beyond its original 27-month mandate, the Center will have offered services for almost five years.Eight Sentara hospitals receive highest rating for heart attack care
Sentara treats about 1,400 heart attacks each year. Eight of our twelve hospitals received the chest pain accreditation.A pocket-sized revolution: New clinical smartphones reduce staff workload and improve patient care
Technology aims to reduce hospital length of stay, improve admission time to the emergency department, and speed up nurse response time.
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