Centra has become the first-ever health care system to be certified by a new nationwide program aimed at bolstering care for cancer survivors through an innovative marriage of oncology and rehabilitation expertise, officials announced Monday.

Over the past several weeks, the number of patients with flu-like symptoms seen at Lynchburg General Hospital has almost tripled.

A new bank is lending support to some of Centra’s debt, helping the region’s largest employer lower its debt payments.

A new survey by Forbes magazine has named Centra among the safest hospitals in the country.

Village Family Physicians, a practice that has operated independently in Moneta for more than three decades, is now affiliated with Centra.

Partnering with Centra helps the practice offer better benefits to workers, as well as handle business management and billing aspects, Luth said. The operation started as a rural health clinic, and moved to several different locations in Moneta as it grew.

In denying an appeal filed by Centra Health, a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia has cleared the way for the payment of a 2007 jury verdict for $325,000 to the family of a man who died at Lynchburg General Hospital.

Local health-care providers are seeing a surge in patients who cannot pay their bills as more people lose income in the economic downturn.

A new program starting in March at Centra Health’s new Alan B. Pearson Regional Cancer Center will help former cancer patients make the transition into physically and emotionally healthy survivors.

Lynchburg College is planning its first doctorate program, partnering with Centra to help fill a community need for more physical therapists.

Centra Board of Directors chairman Rodger Fauber has received the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association’s 2008 Excellence in Governance Award.

A public hearing on a planned expansion of Centra’s hospital-based psychiatric services drew few comments Wednesday, but speakers described the current service as near capacity.

Centra’s plan to expand in-patient psychiatric care at Virginia Baptist Hospital is moving forward.

Carilion Clinic specialists in women’s pelvic cancers will be staffing a weekly specialty referral-only clinic at Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital, beginning in October.

A trade journal this month named Centra one of the 100 most wired hospitals and health systems in the country.
“Wired” is a descriptor for the hospital’s capacity to use electronic means to achieve in an instant what other hospitals are doing in hours of paperwork.
Becoming one of the electronic elite didn’t happen overnight.