Sentara Health is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system founded in 1888 as a small hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. Today it operates 12 hospitals and a network of over 300 sites of care across Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, employing more than 1,600 physicians and advanced practice providers and handling over 2.8 million patient visits each year.
The quality of clinical care is a distinguishing feature of the organisation. Eight of its hospitals hold Magnet Recognition Program® designation - an accreditation awarded to fewer than 8% of hospitals nationwide - and Sentara has been consistently ranked among the best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for more than 18 consecutive years. It has also been named among the IBM Watson Health "Top 15 Healthcare Systems."
Clinical work is structured around multidisciplinary care teams, with an explicit emphasis on measuring outcomes and improving care delivery. The organisation's stated mission - "We improve health every day" - reflects a focus on both individual patient outcomes and broader community health across the regions it serves.
As a not-for-profit system with more than 125 years of continuous operation, Sentara spans primary care, specialty clinical services, and hospital medicine, supported by what it describes as state-of-the-art healthcare technology and ongoing investment in care delivery innovation.
