Sentara Health System
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Sentara Healthcare, also known as Sentara Health System, is a not-for-profit health care organization serving southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It provides services to more than two million residents in the Hampton Roads
region of Virginia.
Sentara operates more than 100 sites, including ten acute care hospitals with a total of 1,911 beds, nine outpatient care campuses, seven nursing centers, three assisted living centers, and about 380 primary care and multi-specialty physicians. Sentara also provides health coverage plans, home health and hospice services, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, and specialized services, including Nightingale - the region's first air ambulance.
, began in late-February 1982 as the region's first air ambulance and the 38th air medical program in the country. Based at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
, Nightingale serves a 125-mile radius, flying as far north as Washington, D.C. as far south as Ocrcoke Island, east to the Eastern Shore and west to Charlottesville, Va. The ambulance has reached out to more than 16,000 patients since its inception, providing rapid transport of the critically ill or injured from a scene of an accident, or from one medical facility to another with more specialized critical care capabilities.
Nightingale is equipped with high-tech cardiac and pulmonary equipment, including an intra-aortic balloon pump and sophisticated 12-lead EKG monitor, helping the flight nurse and paramedic provide state-of-the-art care in flight.
Obici Rehabilitative Services
Southside
North Carolina
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is the name for both a body of water and the Norfolk–Virginia Beach metropolitan area which surrounds it in southeastern Virginia, United States...
region of Virginia.
Sentara operates more than 100 sites, including ten acute care hospitals with a total of 1,911 beds, nine outpatient care campuses, seven nursing centers, three assisted living centers, and about 380 primary care and multi-specialty physicians. Sentara also provides health coverage plans, home health and hospice services, physical therapy and rehabilitation services, and specialized services, including Nightingale - the region's first air ambulance.
Optima Health
In 1984, Sentara began offering the region's first managed-care plan, Optima Health. Currently Optima Health provides a network of more than 415,000 physicians throughout Virginia. Its network features more than 15,000 providers, including specialists, primary care physicians and hospitals across Virginia. Additionally, Optima Health offers programs to support members with chronic illnesses, customized prevention programs, and integrated clinical and behavioral health services - all to help members improve their health. Optima Health is the only Virginia health plan to maintain an "Excellent" accreditation status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its commercial HMO and Medicaid HMO products since 1998.Nightingale
Sentara's air ambulance Nightingale, named for Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...
, began in late-February 1982 as the region's first air ambulance and the 38th air medical program in the country. Based at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is a hospital in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia. It is located adjacent to Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Sentara Heart Hospital and Eastern Virginia Medical School for which it serves as the teaching hospital. Norfolk General is home to...
, Nightingale serves a 125-mile radius, flying as far north as Washington, D.C. as far south as Ocrcoke Island, east to the Eastern Shore and west to Charlottesville, Va. The ambulance has reached out to more than 16,000 patients since its inception, providing rapid transport of the critically ill or injured from a scene of an accident, or from one medical facility to another with more specialized critical care capabilities.
Nightingale is equipped with high-tech cardiac and pulmonary equipment, including an intra-aortic balloon pump and sophisticated 12-lead EKG monitor, helping the flight nurse and paramedic provide state-of-the-art care in flight.
List of Sentara Hospitals
- Sentara Bayside Hospital (Virginia Beach, VA) *Closed and replaced with Sentara Princess Anne Hospital
- Sentara Careplex Hospital (Hampton, VA)
- Sentara Heart Hospital (Norfolk, VA)
- Sentara Leigh Hospital (Norfolk, VA)
- Sentara Norfolk General HospitalSentara Norfolk General HospitalSentara Norfolk General Hospital is a hospital in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia. It is located adjacent to Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Sentara Heart Hospital and Eastern Virginia Medical School for which it serves as the teaching hospital. Norfolk General is home to...
(Norfolk, VA) - Sentara Obici Hospital (Suffolk, VA)
- Sentara Potomac Hospital (Woodbridge, VA)
- Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital (Virginia Beach, VA)
- Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center (Williamsburg, VA)
- Sentara Princess Anne Hospital (Virginia Beach, VA)
- Martha Jefferson HospitalMartha Jefferson HospitalMartha Jefferson Hospital is a nonprofit community hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was founded in 1903 by eight local physicians. The 176-bed hospital has an employed staff of 1,600 and has 365 affiliated physicians....
(Charlottesville, VA) - Rockingham Memorial Hospital (Harrisonburg, VA)
List of Sentara Outpatient Care Facilities (Excluding Hospitals)
- Sentara Greenbrier Healthplex (Chesapeake, VA)
- Sentara Port Warwick (Newport News)
- Sentara Obici Outpatient Center
- Sentara Princess Anne Health Campus (Virginia Beach)
- Sentara BelleHarbour (Suffolk)
- Sentara Gloucester Medical Arts (Gloucester)
- Sentara St. Luke's (Isle of Wight)
List of Sentara Rehabilitation Centers
Peninsula- CarePlex Therapy Center
- Fitness and Therapy Works, Sentara Hampton Health & Fitness Center
- Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center Outpatient Rehabilitation Services
Obici Rehabilitative Services
- Sentara Obici Rehab Services
- Smithfield Physical Therapy
- Sentara Obici Therapy Center
- Sentara Obici Wakefield Physical Therapy Center
- Sentara/Obici Hand Center and Lymphedema Services
Southside
- Battlefield Therapy Center
- Bayside Therapy Center
- Day Rehabilitation, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
- ExploreHealth with Sentara Center
- Great Bridge Therapy Center
- Hand Therapy Center
- Hilltop Therapy Center
- Indian River Therapy Center
- Leigh Therapy Center, Sentara Leigh Hospital
- Portsmouth Therapy Center
- Sentara Princess Anne Therapy Center
- The Therapy Center
- Work Rehabilitation Center
North Carolina
- Sentara Currituck Outpatient Therapy Center
List of Sentara Schools
- Sentara College of Health Sciences
- Sentara School of Clinical Pastoral EducationClinical pastoral educationClinical pastoral education is education to teach pastoral care to clergy and others. CPE is the primary way of training hospital and hospice chaplains in the United States...
(CPE) - Suffolk Public Schools/Sentara Obici Hospital School of Practical Nursing
External links
- http://www.sentara.com
- http://www.optimahealth.com
- http://www.sentara.edu/