Sentara Healthcare is a not-for-profit health partner serving the communities of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It is one of the most progressive and integrated health care organizations in the nation providing services to more than two million Hampton Roads residents. Sentara operates more than 87 care giving sites, including 7 acute care hospitals with a total of 1,722 beds, 2 outpatient care campuses, 7 nursing centers, 3 assisted living centers, and over 265 primary care and multi-specialty physicians. Sentara also was the first in the nation to pioneer and develop the eICU®, a remote monitoring system for intensive care.
Sentara also offers a wide range of award-winning health coverage plans, home health and hospice services, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, including the region?s only air ambulance service, Nightingale. Some of the services provided by Sentara Healthcare are: Cancer Services, providing the most innovative technologies and methods being used anywhere and is recognized nationally for its medical advancements. The Sentara Neuroscience Network is a highly integrated system of professionals, procedures, therapies and facilities providing care for patients with any aspect of the complete spectrum of neurologic and neurosurgical disorders. The Transplant Center for Sentara Healthcare has been part of more than 1600 transplants performing kidney and heart transplants (performing the region?s first transplants of those organs).
Sentara Healthcare strives to improve the wellness of the community and it participates continuously in national and international research trials as a means to increase the medical options available to patients well into the future. Moreover, it has consistently ranked among the nation?s top integrated health care networks in Modern Healthcare?s fact based ranking. Sentara Healthcare is one of the largest employers in Hampton Roads and has been recognized by the Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA) with a Gold Well Workplace Award for programs that demonstrate a sincere commitment to wellness in the workplace and improving employee health.