Quality, Safety and Innovation

Sentara emphasizes quality, safety, and innovation in everything we do. For over a century, Sentara has adopted the latest medical innovations and implemented new technologies for improved outcomes, safety, and efficiency. Its hospitals have made history, delivering America’s first in-vitro baby, performing Hampton Roads’ first organ transplants, and pioneering telehealth services. Its culture of safety and commitment to innovation help us improve health every day.

Community

1903

1927 Dixie Nursing Students with Dr. Howe

1913

Nursery

1926

Nationa Hospital Day Celebration 1933

1931

Open Heart Surgery

1967

Emergency Department

1972

Toy Savage Glenn Mitchell

1972

Potomac Hospital

1977

1976 Norfolk General Regions First Radiation Oncology Center

1979

Elixabeth Carr Life Magazine

1981

Nightingale

1982

HeartTrans CLR

1989

David Bern Continuous Quality Improvement presentation.

1993

Careplex Grnd

1995

Operating Room Nurses

2000

Sentara Named Top Integrated Healthcare Network

2001

Laura Bush

2003

2004 Issue of Network

2004

Patient safety promise

2004

Magnet hospitals

2006

2007

Mobile Sentara eCare®

2008

Tobacco Free

2009

Bernd speaking to RMH employees

2010

Cyber Knife

2010

Neurosciences

2011

First paired kidney exchange

2011

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius

2011

Echo Tech at SVBGH

2012

Sentara’s announcement

2012

Nurse at White Board

2012

Sentara’s disaster readiness protocols

2012

Sentara to Home service

2012

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

2012

Sentara RMH Medical Center

2013

Sentara Princess Anne Hospital

2013

Sentara commitment to innovation.

2013

Sentara’s hopes for bringing NuScriptRX to other assisted living centers

2013

Sentara’s autonomic testing lab

2014

The CardioMEMS wireless heart monitor

2015

A grade for safety from the Leapfrog

2015

Sentara Leigh Hospital

2016

Howard Kern

2016

Normal lungs on computed tomography scan

2016

Telemedicine

2016

Ornish Reversal program

2016

Sentara Heart Hospital’s nurses recognized

2017

Vascular Team

2017

IBM Billboard

2018

Chandra Hubbard-Wright

2018

Patient and Physician

2018

Blood Bank

2018

Sentara Mobile Application Login

2019

Nightingale air ambulance

2019

Linear Accelerator

2019

Blockchain-Empowered Cybersecurity Solution

2019

Home Health Team

2019

ER nurse takes a patient’s temperature

2020

LGBTQ

2020

COVID screening

2020

Distributing the COVID-19 vaccine

2020

COVID-19 vaccines

2021

Heart in a Box Landing

2021

Seek Care

2021

Sentara Halifax Family Medicine

2021

2021

2021

Face Shields Superheroes

2022

Holistic Treatments

2022

SNGH

2022

Dennis Matheis

2022

OptaFi

2022

Newborn

2022