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Sentara’s Culture of Safety Spreads

Sentara’s Culture of Safety Spreads

by | Dec 6, 2022

Sentara’s behavior-based expectations (BBEs) and Red Rules established standard protocols of communication and enabled employees to ensure clinical quality on a person-to-person basis. Sentara employees were recognized and rewarded for practicing BBEs and catching...
Two Sentara Employees Recover Abducted Infant

Two Sentara Employees Recover Abducted Infant

by | Dec 6, 2022

Two Sentara radiological technicians became heroes in December 2007, when they safely recovered an abducted infant. Sue Midgett and Lisa Ahlbrandt heard an AMBER Alert on the radio at Sentara Leigh Hospital, stating that a one-month-old had been abducted. The two...
Magnet Designation

Magnet Designation

by | Dec 6, 2022

In 2006, Martha Jefferson Hospital received designation as a Magnet organization by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, becoming the first independent community hospital in Virginia to attain Magnet status. To receive this prestigious designation, hospitals must...
Three New Facilities Open

Three New Facilities Open

by | Dec 6, 2022

Three new facilities opened in 2006 as part of Sentara’s building boom in the 2000s. Sentara Princess Anne Health Campus opened in southern Virginia Beach, a 72-acre campus providing diagnostics, cancer treatment, outpatient surgery, laboratory services, and emergency...