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Network: February/March 2008
Members of the Team: General Updates
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(L-R) Sgt. Scott Matthews and Mary Moyer of Ft. Eustis, John Thompson, USO Hampton Roads, Debra Flores and Anna Scarafino-McDaniel of Sentara CarePlex Hospital, and LTC Preston De Jean of Ft. Eustis. During the holidays, Sentara CarePlex Hospital employees wrote letters to soldiers as part of hospital-wide project.
|  Sentara Shows Holiday Spirit
Sentara employees throughout the system enjoyed holiday celebrations at their worksites and participated in various activities to help those in need. Some of the activities included angel trees to support organizations like St. Mary’s Infant Home, collections for Toys for Tots and the Food Bank, and even a letter writing campaign to brighten the holiday for U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
 2007 Accomplishments: A Look Back
Sentara continues to build a reputation nationwide for quality and patient safety, of which all Members of the Team can be proud. Here is a brief and partial list of some of our achievements during 2007.
• U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals edition featured Sentara Heart Hospital as a model for patient care in the article ‘Navigating the Hospital.’
• Sentara started a consultancy, Healthcare Performance Improvement, to help client systems around the country improve patient safety.
• Sentara’s Clinical and Business Intelligence staff helped Dr. Irving Pike establish national quality standards for gastrointestinal procedures.
• Sentara performed its first successful pancreas transplant.
• Sentara’s Nightingale Air Ambulance marked 25 years of incident-free service to Hampton Roads.
• Optima’s Partners in Pregnancy program marked five years and 50,000 high-risk moms delivering healthy babies.
• Sentara won the first approval in Virginia from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicare participation in our PACE program for the elderly.
• Sentara committed to pursuit of Cancer Network status, a high level of accreditation awarded by the American College of Surgeons to facilities offering the best in cancer care.
• The Sentara Health Foundation funded groundbreaking research, still underway, into why people use Emergency Departments instead of family doctors.
• Sentara opened the Peninsula’s first Advanced Imaging Center and the Dorothy G. Hoefer Comprehensive Breast Center at Port Warwick in Newport News.
• Sentara’s fall prevention initiative, funded through a Robert Wood Johnson grant, is going system-wide, and gaining national media attention.
• Sentara participated in four live webcasts of surgical procedures viewed by thousands around the world.
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