Patient Stories 

Highlighting Sentara's mission to improve health every day.

Read about patients who received excellence in cardiac care from Sentara Heart.
 

A Heartening Experience
Nurse Charley Goodwin became a patient in the Sentara CarePlex Hospital Emergency Department where he works - and found Sentara's heart attack protocol works wonders.
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 Walk this Way
Within days of his open-heart surgery at Sentara Heart Hospital, Sentara patient Warren Stewart returns to exercising and says he owes his swift recovery to the expertise of the staff.

 
 




Time is Muscle
Early application of 12-Lead EKG in the field means the difference between life and death for Jim Howley, a heart attack patient at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital.
 
 




 

 Catching Her Breath: Repaired Mitral Valve Defect Puts Bounce Back in Barbara Etheridge's Step
The warning sign: shortness of breath. The two block walk to work, a routine part of Barbara Etheridges day, was ever so gradually wearing her out. 
 


 




A Heartening Experience: Bypass Surgery Treats Heart Disease for Active Patient 
Even though his own father and grandfather died of heart disease, his own heart disease diagnosis took him by surprise.