Becker's Healthcare April 4, 2025
By the end of October 2025, Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health plans to implement virtual nursing across all of its 12 hospitals, supporting nearly 1,800 medical-surgical and intermediate care beds.
The health system chose a centralized model to enhance agility, protect patient privacy and better support bedside teams — part of a broader effort to redesign traditional care delivery amid ongoing workforce shortages and rising demands for healthcare services.
Becker’s recently caught up with Amber Price, DNP, MSN, RN, to learn more about Sentera’s virtual nursing expansion, her thoughts on the need for CMS to modernize its policies and lessons from the health system’s team-based primary care model.
Editor’s note: Responses have been lightly edited for clarity and...
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