February 2012
Monthly Archives
Celebrating Outstanding Team Efforts
2011 Sentara CEO’s Awards Presented Recognizing outstanding team efforts system-wide, the 2011 CEO’s Awards are the highest recognition for team members within Sentara Healthcare. The purpose of the award is to recognize team members, who have tackled difficult and complex problems, implemented significant changes, achieved dramatic results and where appropriate, spread solutions across the organization. … Continue Reading
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Beating the Clock
Sentara Heart and Vascular Center provides fast, lifesaving care to its first heart attack patient. “I think I’m having a heart attack.” Those were the seven words Woodbridge resident, Marcel Huard, said when he arrived at Sentara Potomac Hospital’s Irene V. Hylton Emergency Care Center. What happened after that, he says, was a blur. “After … Continue Reading
Heart pacing device helps doctors
Rockingham Memorial Hospital Physician First in State to Implant New CRT-D Therapy Device. Rockingham Memorial Hospital electrophysiologist Robert VerNooy, MD, has successfully implanted a new type of heart pacing device that helps doctors better treat patients diagnosed with heart failure. He is the first physician in Virginia to implant the new device. The new pacing technology, developed … Continue Reading
Celebrating a special moment
Hospital patient celebrates one of “life’s” precious moments Sentara Commitments: Always work together as a team to provide you quality healthcare For some, being in the hospital can mean missing some of life’s special moments. This could be a family member birthday, a special anniversary or even a wedding. For Terrie Kaluzny, patient in the … Continue Reading
Having Trouble Sleeping?
An old Irish proverb suggests a good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. Well, there may be some truth in that. A common condition affecting one in 10 Americans is sleep apnea. It’s a serious condition where soft tissue of the throat blocks airways during sleep. A dreamer’s … Continue Reading
Suspect Heart Trouble? Call 911
Written by Carl Hartman, M.D. Many times patients have recounted to me, as a practicing cardiologist, stories about dealing with a major cardiac event (or the suspicion of such an event) where they took actions that jeopardized their health. They ignored the warning signs. They waited it out. When they decided they should go to … Continue Reading
A Heart full of Love and Kindness
Valentine’s Day is a time for love and caring. It is a time to celebrate and show appreciation for the people in our lives who we love and care about most. However, for one 13-year-old boy this holiday kindness transcends family to also include strangers in need. Logan Pettorini is the son of Sentara Potomac Hospital employee Jennifer Pettorini. … Continue Reading
Employee Represents Innovation and Leadership
Sentara executive selected for new Innovation Advisors Program to improve care for patients. Congratulations to Grace Hines, senior vice president of Strategy and Strategic Implementation at Sentara Healthcare, on being selected for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Advisors Program. The initiative, launched by the CMS Innovation Center in October 2011, will help … Continue Reading
Got an App-etite for new technology?
Sentara Healthcare knows healthcare consumers have an app-etite for technology. That’s why – on the heels of its successful Sentara MyChart app launch in 2011 – the integrated healthcare system now introduces the SentaraHealth app. The SentaraHealth app for iPhone, Android and Blackberry provides convenient, real-time access to basic information about hospitals, locations and doctors … Continue Reading
The Sounds of Caring
A professional listener who hears what most miss The wear and tear of a 40-year history of playing soccer brought Woody Poole to Sentara Leigh Hospital for a double knee replacement. It was his experiences as a dad, teacher and coach that make him somewhat of a professional listener. In these roles, he has honed … Continue Reading
