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Sentara in the News
Sentara Healthcare in national and regional news outlets
April 2008 - June 2008
 Article: Professor Receives Fulbright Scholarship
Publication: PRNewswire
Date: June 18, 2008
Summary: Professor Dorothea La 'Chon' Abraham of the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Japan on eCare, the use of electronic medical records. She plans to compare information gathered from Japan and the United States. The press release mentions that her U.S. project is being conducted by Sentara.
Read the press release.
Article: Sentara Receives CIO 100 Award
Publication: CIO magazine
Date: June 3, 2008
Summary: CIO magazine, a leading publication in the information technology industry, has recognized Sentara Healthcare with its CIO-100 Award. The annual award program recognizes innovative organizations that use information technology (IT) effectively to create business value. Sentara's nominated project focused on using wireless phones to improve communication in its hospitals.
Read about the award.
Article: Hundreds Injured in Va. Storms
Publications: 600 mentions in the national media including the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Washington Times, Boston Herald, The San Diego Union-Tribune and Advance for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals
Date: April 28, 2008
Summary: When a tornado struck Suffolk, Sentara Obici Hospital employees sprung into action to help the injured victims. Read a news article from The Washington Post and Advance for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals.
Article: Students Get Hands On Training
Publication: Suffolk News Herald
Date: April 23, 2008
Summary: About 50 students from Suffolk Public School’s health occupation classes visit Sentara Obici Hospital to get hands-on experience in dozens of different medical fields.
Read the article.
Article: Spy System Aims to Help in Bypass Surgeries
Publication: The Daily Press
Date: April 17, 2008
Summary: The SPY-Intra-Operative Imaging System offers physicians immediate results in determining whether a coronary bypass surgery is successful. The new tool in use at Sentara Heart Hospital is expected to result in improved patient outcomes.
Read the news release.
Article: To Gauge Quality, Project Records Data from Doctors
Publication: The Wall Street Journal
Date: April 15, 2008
Summary: Twenty-three medical practices around the country have participated in a program, in which gastroenterologists use computer software to track details of their technique in colonoscopies. They have submitted information on more than 4,800 colonoscopies to Sentara, which is voluntarily compiling them under the direction of Dr. Irving Pike, a gastroenterologist and chairman of the nationwide colonoscopy tracking project.
Read the article.
Article: Shortages Create Need for New Programs
Publication: Inside Business
Date: April 7, 2008
Summary: Schools and health systems work together to train technicians, who are in high demand in the work place. The article quotes two employees – Angela Bailey, polysomnographic technician, and Debbie Akers, Sentara Sleep Center manager.
Article: Navigators Lead Patients through Care Maze
Publication: Inside Business
Date: April 7, 2008
Summary: Patient navigators at Sentara assist cancer patients as they go through their treatment process. Sentara has four patient navigators and would like to hire three more. The article quotes Mark Szalwinski, vice president of Cancer Services for Sentara. Article: Quality on the Front End
Article: Quality on the Front End
Publication: HealthLeaders magazine
Date: April 1, 2008
Summary: Keeping quality as the center of health care is the focus of the article that quotes Dr. Gene Burke, executive medical director of clinical effectiveness for Sentara. The article discusses the importance of getting back to basics with regards to quality, and notes Sentara was able to decrease its ventilator-associated pneumonia rates 25-fold over a five-year period.
Read the article.
December 2007 - March 2008
Article: Abducted Baby Recovered by Sentara Employees
Publications: Advance for Imaging, Radiation Therapy Professionals, The Virginian-Pilot, local television
Date: Dec. 21, 2007
Summary: Two Sentara Leigh Hospital radiology employees are praised for their quick thinking in rescuing an abducted infant who was with a patient in the Emergency Department. Sue Midgett and Lisa Ahlbrandt heard an Amber Alert for an abducted child on the radio and realized they had just performed a procedure on a woman who fit the suspect’s description and had an infant with her. They hurried back to the Emergency Department, where Midgett asked to hold the baby and identified clothing described in the Amber Alert, while Ahlbrandt alerted nursing staff and police were called.
Read the article in The Virginian-Pilot and Advance for Imaging and Radiology Therapy Professionals.
Article: Sentara Center for Health and Fitness Now Open
Publication: Hampton Roads Health Journal
Date: January 2008
Summary: Sentara’s 34,000-square-foot health and fitness facility opens with top-notch fitness equipment and programs, an indoor track, swimming pools, massage therapy and a café.
Read the article on page 5. (PDF)
Article: The Age of Digital Detection: Sentara Women’s Imaging Pavilion to Offer Digital Mammography
Publication: Hampton Roads Health Journal (Williamsburg edition)
Date: January 2008
Summary: The article notes that the Women’s Imaging Pavilion staff anticipate the arrival of three digital mammography units that month to replace film-based units.
Article: Medicare Up, Up, Up and…
Publication: Modern Healthcare
Date: Jan. 14, 2008
Summary: Sentara Healthcare’s Chief Financial Officer Rob Broermann is interviewed for an article about the rise in Medicare spending in 2006. With a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report showing that Medicare spending rose almost 19 percent in 2006, health care providers are facing an uphill battle in trying to jockey for more money from the Medicare program.
Article: Gov. Kaine Names Virginia Beach Doctor as State Health Commissioner
Publication: The Virginian-Pilot, Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Daily Press, local television news, online media
Date: Jan 15, 2008
Summary: Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appoints Dr Karen Remley, MD, MBA, FAAP, vice president of medical affairs at Sentara Leigh Hospital, to lead the Department of Health in Richmond, Va. Beginning on Jan. 15, the day of the announcement, the story was covered extensively in print, television, radio and online media .
Read the story in The Virginian-Pilot.
Article: Fostering Innovation
Publication: The Virginian-Pilot
Date: Jan. 17, 2008
Summary: Sentara CEO Dave Bernd encourages innovation and creative thinking among his employees and fosters an atmosphere in which people feel they can take risks. Bernd served on a U.S. Commerce Department advisory committee along with leaders from organizations, including Microsoft, Wal-Mart and Harvard University. The article features the report the committee issued on how to measure the economic effects of innovation.
Read the article or read the report.
Article: Hospital Recycling on a Roll
Publication: Virginia Gazette
Date: Feb. 2, 2008
Summary: Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center staff and Green Team volunteers talk about the success of their recycling program – recycling 50 percent of the hospital’s paper, metals and plastics.
Article: Sentara Opens Medical Campus, Eyes Expansion
Publication: The Daily Press
Date: Feb. 5, 2008
Summary: Sentara’s Gloucester Medical Arts building opens. The 36,000-square-foot facility features an urgent care and specialists in general surgery, orthopedics, allergy and surgical oncology.
Television news story: Sentara Heart Transplant Patient
Station: WTKR-TV Channel 3
Date: Feb. 14, 2008
Summary: The spot features a 55-year-old patient awaiting a heart transplant and discusses the efforts of Dr. John Herre and his team to locate a heart for the patient.
Article: Board Approves Medical Campus
Publication: The Daily Press
Date: Feb. 29, 2008
Summary: The Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors approves a new, 42-acre Sentara medical campus as part of the planned St. Luke’s Village neighborhood.
Article: Online Records System Puts Patients in Driver’s Seat
Publication: The Daily Press
Date: March 1, 2008
Summary: Sentara’s new eCare Health Network®, which provides access to electronic medical records for patients, launches at Sentara Leigh Hospital.
Article: Starved for Sleep? Watch Your Waistline
Publication: U.S. News and World Report
Date: March 17, 2008
Summary: Sleep less, and you might gain weight. That’s the message of two studies from the Sleep Disorders Center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital that found those who sleep less weigh more. The studies included 1,000 men and women. The article was picked up from HealthDay, a division of ScoutNews, LLC, a Norwalk, Conn.-based news syndication company. Read the article in U.S. News and World Report.
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