More Bang for Your Buck
Occupational Medicine Specialty is Focused on Taking Care of Employees in the Workplace. In today’s era of tight business budgets and a sluggish economy, employers are charged with maintaining the health of the organization’s bottom line along with the health of its most valuable asset–their employees. It’s a tall order! Yet, one medical specialty called, … Continue Reading
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Are you present at work?
How the EAP can help improve your productivity at work. We all know our personal lives can impact our professional lives and vice versa. Are you finding it difficult to concentrate at work because of personal issues at home? Employers have a word for it—it’s called presenteeism. It’s a relatively new term that refers to … Continue Reading
Practice, practice, practice
Sentara and the Navy partner in disaster preparedness exercise. “You do what you practice,” says Bill Brown, Sentara Manager of Disaster & Emergency Management. Sentara Hospitals are involved in numerous exercises annually to help train staff and to gain experiences working with community partners. Sentara and NAS Oceana recently took part in an exercise to … Continue Reading
Help for Homeless Families
Medical case management offers assistance to Norfolk family Diane Lenihan of Norfolk was working so hard cleaning other people’s homes – in addition to her full-time job – to keep a roof over her family’s heads that she didn’t have time to take care of her own health. When she lost the financial battle and … Continue Reading
Nurse Always Caring for Those in Need
Sentara Hospice Liaison is Recognized as Extraordinary. Death and dying . . . difficult topics . . . no matter what the setting. Imagine what a challenge it might be to work in a department that cares for the dying and their families every day. The Sentara Healthcare ACE Award Grand Prize winner is Sandra … Continue Reading
How Do You Describe Excellence?
Here’s how we describe excellence… Announcing the July – December 2011 Divisional Winners of the Sentara Always Committed to Excellence (ACE) Award! Find out why these employees are so committed to excellence in safety and customer service. Sentara CarePlex Hospital Sandra Brown works as a Administrative Associate for Outpatient Rehab at Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Coliseum Therapy Center … Continue Reading
Shining Examples of Excellence
Take a look at the most recent Always Committed to Excellence Award (ACE) Winners. These 18 Sentara employees are being recognized for always striving to make a difference in the lives of each patient, visitor, physician and coworker they serve. Tomorrow we’ ll share a photo montage of all the winners, along with an explanation of … Continue Reading
New Sentara.com Look
Notice Something Different on Sentara.com? Sentara recently updated its homepage and other pages across Sentara.com based on feedback from web visitors and best practices for web design. What’s New? Updated banner across top of most pages…..easily login to the site of your choice or start a search Find a Doctor search from the homepage…..start … Continue Reading
Thank a Social Worker Today
Sentara Recognizes National Professional Social Work Month. Have you hugged a social worker lately? Well, if you haven’t now is a great time to do so. March marks National Professional Social Work Month and this year’s theme is Social Work Matters. The theme seeks to showcase the impact of more than 642,000 professional social workers in … Continue Reading
Grief Relief for Children
Camp Lighthouse: A Healing Camp for Grieving Children. Register Now for Camp to be held April 21 and 22, 2012 Camp Lighthouse is now accepting reservations for this year’s camp scheduled April 21 and 22, 2012 at Triple-R Ranch in Chesapeake. This marks the seventh year of the camp, whose mission is to help children ages … Continue Reading
