Healthcare
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is easy on the Virginia Peninsula—an area packed with some of the finest medical resources in the country. Three outstanding health systems supply a comprehensive list of services and programs, while innumerous clinics and physician practices offer a range of specialties and subspecialties.
Riverside Health System – Riverside Health System stands as the Peninsula’s most comprehensive healthcare provider, operating numerous locations throughout the region and its surrounding area. In addition to several major hospital campuses, Riverside has established facilities specializing in physical care, rehabilitation, behavioral health, convalescent care, managed care, diagnostics and outpatient care. The system also manages three retirement communities in the area.
Riverside hospitals serving the Virginia Peninsula area include:
- The 570-bed Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News
- The 67-bed Riverside Walter Reed Hospital, Gloucester
- The 50-bed Riverside Rehabilitation Institute, Newport News
- The 125-bed Riverside Behavioral Health Center, Hampton Roads
- The upcoming, $82 million Doctors Hospital of Williamsburg, WilliamsburgRiverside Health System has served the Virginia Peninsula since 1916, and has since garnered numerous awards for its programs, services and facilities. In 2009 it was named to the list of the country’s Most Wired Hospitals/Health Systems for the fifth time in a row. In addition, Riverside Regional Medical Center has earned recognition as one of the most customer-friendly hospitals in the U.S., was selected as one of the nation’s 100 top cardiovascular hospitals by Thomson Reuters and received a top ranking for orthopedic care by Medicare.
Sentara Healthcare – Sentara Healthcare has certainly grown from its start as a 25-bed hospital in Norfolk in 1888. Today, the system operates more than 100 sites, including seven acute care hospitals, nine outpatient centers, seven nursing centers, three assisted living centers, nine advanced imaging centers and the Sentara Medical Group, which is equipped with 380 primary and multi-specialty care physicians.
Sentara hospitals serving the Virginia Peninsula area include:
- Sentara CarePlex Hospital, Hampton
- Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, Williamsburg
- Sentara Port Warwick, Newport News
The system launched the nation’s first eICU in 2000, was the first to bring robotic surgery to the area and operates southeastern Virginia’s first air ambulance, sole Level I Trauma Center and the most comprehensive solid organ transplant center. Sentara is regularly ranked among the U.S.’s top integrated healthcare networks by Modern Healthcare, and is continually recognized by U.S. News & World Report in its “America’s Best Hospitals” surveys. In fact, in 2009, the system ranked in the “Top 50” for heart and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrine disorders, geriatric care, kidney disorders and orthopedics.
Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System – Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System is a not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare delivery system with a number of established facilities in the area. Notable is Mary Immaculate Hospital, located conveniently in Newport News. The hospital has been a part of the Bon Secours Health System since 1996. Its campus features the Medical Pavilion, Denbigh Medical Center, 115-bed St. Francis Nursing Center, the Community Education and Health Resource Center and the Parcourse Fitness Trail.
Additional Bon Secours hospitals serving the Virginia Peninsula area include:
- Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center, Norfolk
- Bon Secours Health Center at Harbour View, Suffolk
- Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, Portsmouth
Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute –At 98,000 square feet and a total of five treatment rooms, the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI) is the only proton therapy cancer treatment center in Virginia. With plans to treat over 2,000 patients per year with breast, lung, prostate, pediatric and other cancers, HUPTI is the largest free-standing proton therapy institute in the world. HUPTI is a state-of-the-art research and training facility as the first proton center in the nation to provide proton-specific medical career training at a variety of levels, radiation therapist to MD/PhD and an additional beam line dedicated to proton therapy research.
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