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Sentara's Recent Awards and Recognitions

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Awards and Recognitions

Eight Sentara hospitals have earned either a 5-star CMS rating or a 4-star CMS rating from the 2024 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating. The national average among all rated hospitals is three stars.
All Sentara hospitals have earned DNV Accreditation, which upholds regulatory requirements for hospitals, such as US Government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and provides guidance and best practices for clinical specialty organizations across healthcare.
  • America's Best Employers For Healthcare Professionals, Forbes (2025)
  • America's Best Employers By State, Forbes (2025)
  • America's Best-In-State Employer, Forbes (2024)
  • Best Employer for Veterans, Forbes (2022, 2023)
  • Best Employer for New Grads, Forbes (2022)
  • Best Employer for Women, Forbes (2020)

Web Badge-Innovator of the Year.pngHealth Quality Innovators named Sentara Health a 2024 Health Quality Innovator of the Year. This prestigious annual award program recognizes and celebrates organizations that are using successful, evidence-based approaches to improve health care quality and outcomes.

Sentara was selected as the winner in the Population Health category for its efforts to improve health equity and expand access to care through its innovative care delivery model, Sentara Community Care. Learn more about Sentara's award and accomplishments here.

Through the work of Sentara’s Diversity & Inclusion department, all of our hospitals have received the High Performer designation for 2024 from the Human Rights Campaign, a nationwide organization working to achieve quality and inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community.

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'High Performer' in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality, Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) (2024, 2022)

Top 15 Health System, IBM Watson Health (2018, 2021)
Nine Sentara Hospitals received an “A” grade in The Leapfrog Group’s Fall 2025 Safety Grades, achieving recognition for providing safe, exceptional patient care. Sentara Leigh Hospital and Sentara CarePlex Hospital were two of just 11 U.S. hospitals with 28 consecutive “A”s from Leapfrog.
10 Sentara hospitals earned an "A" grade for social responsibility on the 2025-26 Lown Institute Hospitals Index.

Eleven Sentara hospitals have earned Magnet Recognition Program®️ designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Four hospitals have earned Magnet with Distinction, which recognizes organizations that exceed Magnet’s already rigorous performance benchmarks.

You can learn more about our nursing awards here.

Named in "America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion/Diversity 2025," "America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025," and "America's Greatest Workplaces for Mental Wellbeing 2025." Additionally, five Sentara hospitals have earned recognition in Newsweek's Best-in-State Hospitals 2025 rankings, highlighting the leading hospitals in every state.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Sentara hospitals in multiple “Best Hospital” categories, and received recognition as “High Performing” in several specialties, procedures, and conditions. 

In 2025, six Sentara hospitals were named among the nation's best for high-quality labor and delivery services for uncomplicated pregnancies. In addition, four Sentara hospitals were named Maternity Access Hospitals, which recognizes hospitals that provide maternity care services in areas that would otherwise have none.

Sentara has consistently earned recognition from U.S. News for more than 20 consecutive years.

We are proud to be a certified V3 employer since 2013, which demonstrates our exceptional efforts in recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining military veterans.

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