Sentara Leigh Hospital Open House Scheduled Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 

‘Choose WiseLeigh’ event includes Nightingale Air Ambulance, Health Screenings
Hours 9 a.m. to Noon

Norfolk, VA –  July 28, 2009 - Sentara Leigh Hospital is changing. There’s an expanded, modernized emergency department. Improvements are underway on operating rooms and behind-the-scenes areas to improve patient care. Sentara Leigh is celebrating its first national ranking in orthopedics in the U.S. News & World Report ‘America’s Best Hospitals’ edition for 2009. It performs the most knee replacements in Virginia.

Sentara Leigh draws patients from Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, due in part to its central location on Kempsville Road in Norfolk and because of its reputation as a community hospital with big hospital sophistication.

It was the first Sentara hospital to ‘go live’ with the Sentara eCare Health Network®, a groundbreaking electronic medical records system. It is also part of the Sentara eICU network, which saves lives by remote monitoring of intensive care patients.

‘Choose WiseLeigh’ Open House from 9 a.m. to noon on Aug. 22 to include health screenings, Pocket EKG

Pocket EKG – For a nominal fee of $20, Pocket EKG provides a wallet-sized printout of your heart rhythms that offers medical personnel vital information should you suffer a cardiac event. 
 Blood pressure screening – Free
Cholesterol screening – Free 
 Diabetes information
Sentara Home Care & Hospice information
Nightingale Air Ambulance lands 9:00am (missions & weather permitting)
Norfolk fire truck on display
Tours of renovated post-anesthesia care unit (PACU)

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