Community Impact

Sentara has always been dedicated to serving the community. Many of Sentara’s forerunner hospitals operated as charity organizations, providing high-quality care to all community members regardless of their ability to pay. Sentara carries on this tradition today with its commitment to non-profit status. Sentara and its hospital foundations work closely with community organizations, providing millions in grant funding every year to support local health programs.

Community
Norfolk Retreat for the Sick

1888

Dixie Hospital 1890 Alice Bacon on Horseback

1891

1895 NPL Retreat For the Sick First Graduating Class

1892

1899 Norfolk Protestant Hospital Capital Stock

1898

1903

Martha Jefferson Sanatorium

1903

Norfolk Protestant Hospital 1903

1906

RMH Postcard 1923

1912

1927 Dixie Nursing Students with Dr. Howe

1913

Bell Hospital

1925

Nursery

1926

Nationa Hospital Day Celebration 1933

1931

Ambulance

1948

Amedeo Obici

1951

Norfolk General Hospital

1958

The General Hospital of Virginia Beach

1961

Emergency Department

1972

Toy Savage Glenn Mitchell

1972

Nightingale

1982

David Bern Continuous Quality Improvement presentation.

1993

Careplex Grnd

1995

Nightingdale

1998

Sentara CarePlex Hospital

2002

Sentara Expands to Williamsburg

2002

Staff gather at the ceremony

2002

Cardiac surgeons at work

2006

Sentara Princess Anne

2006

HomeCare

2008

Sentara Potomac Hospital

2009

Colonial Half Marathon

2009

52,000-square-foot medical building

2010

Sentara Orthopaedic Hospital at Sentara CarePlec

2010

Bernd speaking to RMH employees

2010

The new RMH Healthcare hospital

2010

Patient rooms at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital

2011

Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

2011

Neurosciences

2011

Sentara to Home service

2012

Sentara awarded $875,000 in grants

2012

Sentara History Book Cover

2013

Sentara donated over 3,000 computers

2013

Annual Martha’s Market

2013

Joan Brock and Meril Amdursky at the Sentara Hospice House garden

2013

Halifax Regional Health System

2013

Sentara’s autonomic testing lab

2014

SAMC

2014

Veterans Day

2014

Nurses from Sentara Martha Jefferson Hostpital

2015

Halifax Regional Hospital

2015

Sentara Leigh Hospital

2016

New Sports Medicine Center

2016

Increase access to health insurance for pregnant women

2016

Morgan Phillips

2016

Sentara CarePlex Hospital

2017

Sentara MJH Foundation

2017

Patti Scott

2017

Alverta Robinson

2017

Community Care Clinic

2018

Dr Olusesi

2018

Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital

2018

The Virginia Department of Veterans Services

2018

North Carolina Hurricane Florence Team

2018

Nightingale air ambulance

2019

Rockingham County and Harrisonburg Rescue Squads

2019

$50 million contribution

2019

Sentara Healthcare Logo

2019

SBP

2019

Opening ceremony of the VB Strong Center

2019

ER nurse takes a patient’s temperature

2020

Sentara employees package food

2020

A trauma nurse at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital

2020

COVID screening

2020

Distributing the COVID-19 vaccine

2020

Sentara Healthcare Logo

2020

Sentara CEO Howard Kern

2021

COVID-19 vaccines

2021

2021

Racial Inequities

2021

$150,000 Donation

2021

Sentara Healthcare Logo

2021

Face Shields Superheroes

2022

Ukraine

2022

Holistic Treatments

2022

Dennis Matheis

2022

The Sentara Mobile Care bus

2022

Public Housing in Newport News

2022

Nightingale

2022

VB Strong Center

2022