Centra, the region’s non-profit health care system, maintains its national recognition while completing major construction on a new five-story East Tower and a two-story comprehensive cancer center
Architects and planners listened to Central Virginia health care providers, physicians and former patients in developing the best design to provide patients exceptional care. Completed in 2007, the East Tower includes 108 patient rooms, with separate floors for cancer patients, surgery patients, and a new unit for treating orthopedic/neurology patients. The new Alan B. Pearson Regional Cancer Center brings comprehensive cancer treatment adjacent to Lynchburg General Hospital. The building projects are patient and family-friendly yet still able to accommodate the advanced equipment and technology needed to care for today’s patients.
Centra’s Services
Centra has earned the nation’s highest honor for nursing – Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Association. Photo: Andrew Wilds
Calcium scoring helps Centra cardiologist Chad Hoyt, M.D., determine if a patient has coronary artery disease. Photo: Andrew Wilds
East Tower includes 108 patient rooms, with separate floors for cancer patients, surgery patients, and a new unit for treating orthopedic/ neurology patients. Photo: Andrew Wilds
Centra provides a comprehensive array of medical services with 5,000 skilled health care professionals and 559 beds. In addition to Lynchburg General Hospital, Centra includes Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg, Bedford Memorial Hospital in Bedford and Southside Community Hospital in Farmville.
Lynchburg General, a Level II Trauma Center, is the regional hospital for emergency and critical care, cardiology, orthopedics, neurology and neurosurgery. Virginia Baptist Hospital offer oncology, women and children’s care, mental health, outpatient health, physical rehabilitation and home health care.
Centra also operates the Mammography Center, physician practices, rehabilitation centers and The Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency for physician training.
Recognitions
Centra has long been recognized for its accomplishments. In most recent years Centra’s honors have includes:
- Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
- Ranked one of the 100 Top Cardiovascular Centers in the nation by Solucient, a national company that scrutinizes the quality and costs of health care organizations
- The Press Ganey Associate’s 2006 Summit Award was given to Virginia Baptist Hospital in national recognition as a top performer for patient satisfaction
- Lynchburg General Hospital was featured in The Wall Street Journal in a story on quality improvements in intensive care units
- Centra’s Stroobants Heart Center received VHA’s Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence
Centra Foundation
The Foundation focuses on improving health in the entire community. It is the mission of the Foundation to develop resources, to enhance and enrich the services, programs and facilities of Lynchburg General and Virginia Baptist hospitals, as well as other subsidiaries in order to assist the Centra system in meeting and solving community health problems. The Foundation sponsors health education programs and screenings that focus on a wide variety of health issues.
Lynchburg residents have access to many of the best treatment options available anywhere. And the field of ophthalmology offers a good example. Several established local practices provide the very latest medical and surgical eye care. Piedmont Eye Center, Central Virginia’s only full-time multi-specialist ophthalmology practice, is equipped to serve the advanced eye care needs of children, adults and seniors.
Lynchburg’s ambulance service is provided through the city’s fire department, and the Lynchburg Life Saving Crew, the second oldest volunteer squad in the nation, serves as backup and helps with search and rescue efforts.
Central Virginia also has a medical helicopter service, MedFlight III, with Centra supplying the staff to transport accident victims to area trauma centers.
