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Network: June/July 2007
Members of the Team: Sentara In the News
 Sentara CarePlex Hospital Administrator Featured on Cover of Inside Business
Debra Flores, recently appointed Administrator of Sentara CarePlex Hospital, was featured in an article entitled “Minorities in Medicine: Medicine not yet a Melting Pot” on the cover of the May 7, 2007 issue of Inside Business. Flores, native of Brooklyn, New York with a 23-year nursing career, is described as being the third African-American in three years to take over management of a Hampton Roads acute care hospital. The article discusses local and national minority hiring trends, and quotes Laura Amdusky, Director of Sentara’s Recruitment Resource Center, reporting that 42.9% of Sentara’s 17,385 total employees are considered minorities. Read the article online.
Innovations at Sentara Featured in Inside Business Cover Story
New technology in use at Sentara was featured in the April 2, 2007 cover article of a Healthcare Special Report in Inside Business, “Invasion of the Less Invasive: New Technology Enhances Surgical, Diagnostic Services.” The article highlighted the arrival and use of the region’s first 64-slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner - the GE LightSpeed VCT, valued at more than $1 million - at Sentara Heart Hospital. Also mentioned were Sentara’s use of radiofrequency ablation to heat and destroy tumors and a cryoprobe to freeze and destroy tumors. Read the article online.
Sentara Obici Hospital’s New Laugh Therapy Program Spotlighted in Local News
Sentara Obici Hospital’s new laughter therapy program was featured in April 2007 in the Suffolk News Herald in an article entitled “Staff, Patients Laugh Their Way to Feeling Better” and also in a news segment on WVEC-TV Channel 13. The hospital hosted a training session for hospital staff led by Marilyn Sprague-Smith, a certified laughter leader and one of only a handful of specialists in the nation qualified to teach the discipline. Studies have shown that laughter therapy can help patients heal by relaxing muscles, improving blood circulation, memory, alertness and digestion, strengthening the immune system, exercising the heart, and reducing stress hormones.
 Sentara Princess Anne Health Campus Discussed in Inside Business
Sentara Princess Anne Health Campus and a planned hospital on the site were featured in the April 2, 2007 issue of a Healthcare Special Report in Inside Business. Steve Porter, Administrator of Sentara Bayside Hospital and Sentara Princess Anne, noted potential timing of a new hospital and how it fits into Sentara’s master plan for health care in southern Virginia Beach.
Sentara Praised as Early Adopter of eICU® in Healthcare Executive
An article in the March 2007 issue of Healthcare Executive magazine, “Bringing Virtual Technology to the ICU,” featured an interview with Dr. Gary Yates, Sentara’s Chief Medical Officer, on the benefits and improved outcomes at Sentara following implementation of eICU technology in 2000. The article noted that Sentara was one of the first health care systems in the nation to install eICU, which is now in use by more than 150 hospitals in 21 states.
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center Featured in Doors & Hardware Magazine
The cover of the February 2007 issue of Doors and Hardware, a trade publication, featured an article entitled “Designed to be Relaxed and Secure: Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center.” The article quoted Don West, Director of Support Operations at the hospital, discussing a number of safety and aesthetic features of the new hospital’s design.
Optima Health President Highlighted in Managed Healthcare Executive
The February 2007 issue of Managed Healthcare Executive featured an article entitled “Fundamental Enablers,” which profiled Michael M. Dudley, president of Optima Health. In addition to quoting Dudley, the story also quoted Sentara CEO David L. Bernd, and President and Chief Operating Officer Howard P. Kern. Read the article online.
Sentara Participates in International Television News Story
A Norwegian television station filmed a medical story about the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 5 Million Lives Campaign at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital recently. The news crew conducted a favorable interview with a patient on 5K and ended their day with Sentara’s Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance landing with a cardiac patient. Chris Cannon, Manager of Patient Care Services for Nightingale, was quoted in the piece. The show aired on a Sunday magazine program in February 2007 that claims a million viewers in Norway, a nation of four million people. The 5 Million Lives Campaign is an initiative aimed at protecting patients in the U.S. from 5 million incidents of medical harm between December 2006 and December 2008.
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