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Facilities
PEP
appreciates its longstanding partnership with Sentara CarePlex Hospital and its
development of Sentara Port Warwick.
To access facility-specific information
directly, please click on the pictures below.
Sentara CarePlex Hospital Sentara Emergency
Services at Port Warwick
Hampton, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia
The
partnership between PEP and Sentara features a joint mission for . . .
An uncompromising commitment to
exceptional care. To create a clearly superior community hospital – recognized
by its patients, the community, and its medical/hospital peers – for the
exceptionally high quality of its clinical care, the professionalism of its
medical/nursing staff, and the innovation of its systems and processes,
especially those promoting patient safety.
. . . with a
joint team that is committed to communication. The most recent summary of the
progress made by “ED Ops” or “ED Operations,” which meets every month, included:
- Dedicated Minor
Emergency Care at Sentara CarePlex – with new hours from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
and additional staff – towards the goal of treating patients in 75 minutes
or less.
- Extended hours at
Sentara Port Warwick – 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. – with a new and expanded facility
anticipated in June 2006.
- An overall average
wait for patients of one half-hour to see a provider at either location,
which is considered a best practice in the national community of Emergency
Medicine.
- A committed STEMI
team – ST elevation MI – that works in conjunction with community
cardiologists at Sentara CarePlex and currently has the best measurement of
performance in the Sentara hospital system.
- Coordinated efforts
with Hampton EMS to transmit 12-lead ECGs from the field to Sentara CarePlex
to further expedite patient care.
- Availability of
in-house CT scan and ultrasound technicians 24 hours a day at Sentara
CarePlex with official radiology reads for advanced studies in real time.
- A PharmD – at
Sentara CarePlex within the Emergency Department – to assist with medication
administration and discharge planning for patients.
- Antibiotic
administration to Pneumonia patients that has surpassed any goals set.
- Bedside testing for
hemoglobin and hematocrit, chemistry panels, troponin, urinalysis, and
pregnancy testing.
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