Please join us and the Bedford community for an open house on Wednesday, September 14, from 4 to 6 p.m. as we celebrate the reopening of Bedford Hospice House. The newly renovated house has four rooms and provides hospice patients with residential care in a...
In collaboration with the Free Clinic of Central Virginia, the Community Access Network and Centra, the groundbreaking for the new Fifth Street Community Health Center will be held on Thursday, September 8th from 11:30-1:00pm.
Zika virus spreads to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus). People can also get Zika through sex with an infected man, and the virus can also be passed from a pregnant woman to her fetus. The most common symptoms of Zika are...
Centra will open its third Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly in Gretna — better known as PACE.
PACE provides a vast array of healthcare services to people 55 or older who meet nursing-facility requirements so they can remain in their homes. Services range from...
We are pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of the Centra Foundation Community Health Initiative Fund grants totaling $495,205 to support health-related projects and programs in our region.
Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital was recently recognized as the region’s first Center of Excellence for Minimally Invasive Gynecology (COEMIG) by the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.
LYNCHBURG, Va.--Centra announced this week it has entered into a contract with Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement a new electronic health record (EHR) system to support all of Centra’s medical facilities by the spring of 2018.
With cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death in the United States heart surgeries to both extend life as well as increase quality of life, are ever in demand. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, (TAVR) does both and is now available in Lynchburg at Centra Lynchburg General Hospital.
Cutting-edge cardiac catheterization lab will open at Centra Southside Community Hospital April 18, 2016. This catheterization lab will give patients access to minimally invasive techniques available to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease.
