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Causes: General Hospitals, Health
Mission: Our mission is to improve health and promote wellbeing and to be an innovative, community-oriented health care provider committed to offering accessible, personalized, and high-quality services in a cost-effective manner. We will work in partnership with the local medical community and other local and regional health care resources to ensure that necessary health services are available to all, regardless of their financial status. With our partners, we will seek to enhance the health status of the community we serve by offering an appropriate range of services, including selected areas of excellence. Working with our local physician partners, we will actively participate in the formation of a locally controlled, integrated delivery system. In our efforts, we will be guided by the shared values, beliefs and needs of our local community.
Programs: Hospital services:the hospital provides high-quality health care to the community by offering the latest technology and the best technical expertise. The hospital serves a seven-county area with a population of close to 218,000, admitting more than 19,000 inpatients in 2016. The hospital is licensed as a 238-bed hospital and provides an appropriate array of regional community hospital services including oncology, cardiology including cardiac surgery, behavioral health, obstetrics and women's services, outpatient and inpatient surgery, sleep medicine, emergency care, senior services, home and hospice care, physician practices and a variety of other outpatient services as well as education and outreach. The hospital is home to schools of radiological technology and medical technology. Along with traditional health services, the hospital makes its resources available to support many community health initiatives and programs. See schedule o for a description of programs and accomplishments of the sentara healthcare system as a whole for 2016.