American Hospital Directory - Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (490007) (2024)

FAQs

What was the old name for sentara? ›

In 1983, the organization's name was changed from Medical Center Hospitals to Alliance Health System. In 1984, it began offering the Optima Health Plan HMO. In 1987, the corporation adopted the name "Sentara Health System" (later "Sentara Health").

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Sentara Norfolk General Hospital / Number of beds

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital is a Level I Trauma facility – taking on the highest level of trauma care available. With 40 patient beds, the emergency department serves over 70,000 patients each year and is equipped to handle a variety of emergencies.

Choosing Sentara

We now operate more than 300 sites of care, including 12 hospitals - seven in Hampton Roads (southeastern Virginia), one in Northern Virginia, two in the Blue Ridge region of Virginia, one in southern Virginia and one in North Carolina.

Sentara's strengths, combined with AvMed's local expertise and network of physicians, will create new opportunities to leverage best practices and build new products and services that improve members' health outcomes.

So, Sentara, with the “a” pronounced so that the second syllable rhymed with “care,” was born. It was meant to come from the Latin roots for “center, century and sentry.”

As a recognized accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, our hospital specializes in heart and vascular, neurosciences, neurosurgery, urology, oncology, spine care, advanced imaging, behavioral health, maternity, and women's health, including a state-of-the-art neonatal ...

Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members.

Newsweek's “World's Best Hospitals 2024” guide ranks UVA Health University Medical Center as the No. 1 hospital in Virginia and among the top 40 hospitals nationally.

What is the highest trauma level hospital? ›

Level 1 is the highest or most comprehensive care center for trauma, capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury – from prevention through rehabilitation.

Norfolk General Hospital officially opened May 20, 1925 as a 23-bed fully equipped facility. More than 2,000 citizens attended the ceremony, a sign of the incredible community support the hospital has received since its inception. Improvements to NGH began almost immediately after its opening.

In 2022, the nonprofit organization in the U.S. with the highest paid CEO was Sentara Health, with an estimated salary of 33.22 million U.S. dollars.

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Sentara Norfolk General Hospital / Number of beds

Potomac Hospital merged with Sentara Healthcare in December 2009 and is now known as Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center.

In 1888, a small hospital opened in Norfolk with a simple mission: to give the Hampton Roads community the best medical care possible. It was on that day that Sentara Healthcare, now the premiere healthcare provider in the region and a nationally recognized leader in health care, got its start.

Sentara Leigh Hospital, located in Norfolk, VA, is a 274-bed acute care facility that opened in 1903 and relocated to its present site in 1977. Our hospital completed a renovation in 2016, including two new patient towers, a beautiful atrium, and a multi-story parking garage.

Located in Virginia Beach, VA, and founded in 2011, Sentara Princess Anne Hospital serves Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and northeastern North Carolina delivering high-quality, patient centered care.