Sentara RMH Medical Center honors all of our team members as “healthcare heroes”—the physicians, nurses and other clinicians on the front lines, but also our housekeepers, food service staff, security officers, maintenance and facilities crews, and office staff.

Like many organizations, hospitals regularly create detailed contingency plans for various crisis scenarios—and then hope they never have to use them.

As COVID-19 began to show up in Harrisonburg and surrounding counties earlier this year, the Sentara Medical Group responded by shifting most outpatient clinic visits to an online platform.

The first of Sentara’s five commitments to patients, “ALWAYS keep you safe,” has been a guiding principle since the hospital opened in 1912, and continues to be a primary focus at Sentara RMH during the COVID-19 pandemic.