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Sentara ranked 32 out of 90 Virginia employers on the list and is the second-ranked healthcare employer.

After leaving the area to earn their physician assistant degrees, Kassidy and Chandler chose to return home to care for their community at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital.

The Kaufman Foundation's gift includes an annual donation of $200,000 until funding of a $5 million gift endowment.

In the last 13 years, Sentara Health has donated roughly 10,000 desktops, laptops, and monitors.

The Sentara neurology team is working to share education on the growing treatment opportunities for Alzheimer’s disease with Sentara Medical Group providers and other community healthcare partners.

Sentara treated nearly 7,500 stroke patients across its 12 hospitals in 2023, a seven percent increase over four years ago, and patient volume this year is on track to be even higher.

Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center is the tenth Sentara hospital to earn the elite Magnet nursing designation.

Sentara Obici Hospital will help mothers through a national program designed to increase breastfeeding rates, improve maternity care, and reduce racial disparities.

Sentara hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina are adding the Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehab program to help ensure that patients make full and lasting recoveries from cardiac events.

The transition will ensure consistency, accuracy of data, and easy access for patients.

The Twila Showalter Supportive Care Clinic will enhance early disease detection, expedite necessary treatments, and pave a stronger path to recovery for cancer patients.

Sentara will roughly double residency positions, creating new training programs in Virginia and North Carolina.

Zack Pate donated organs through the HOPE Act, which established a research program allowing donors with well-managed HIV to give organs to recipients with HIV.

Through investments and partnerships, Sentara collaborates with partners to enhance behavioral health services, workforce development, community development and nutrition security.

We are closely monitoring the IT outage linked to the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

In response to a growing need, Sentara Home Care and the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank have joined forces to deliver free food to vulnerable seniors across the Virginia Peninsula.

Sentara’s $91,000 sponsorship enables 20 performances in Virginia and North Carolina, fostering dialogue around mental health.

Experts say the inhaled anesthetic has a disproportionate effect on the ozone layer.

The program will equip faith leaders with the knowledge and tools to help people with mental health and substance abuse challenges.

The emergency department is a level III trauma center and had more than 50,000 patient encounters in 2023.