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Let's talk about RSV

November 23, 2022
Podcast

Let's talk about mobile mammography

November 23, 2022
 
Press release

ICN celebrates 50th anniversary

November 18, 2022
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located at Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital (VBH) is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in November. 
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Neo One: Centra Health's neonatal ambulance

November 14, 2022
"We need to transfer your newborn to another hospital." Those are the last words any parent wants to hear especially the parents of premature babies, but now parents in regions without a Newborn In
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Nursing scholarship fund established

November 14, 2022
This story was originally published in 2021. 
Foundation story

Grateful Patient Giving: John Stafford

November 14, 2022
Nearing the end of his hike to Tinker Cliffs on the Appalachian Trail, Bedford resident John Stafford wouldn’t have known he was suffering a heart attack.
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Grateful Patient Giving : Gary Cantwell

November 2, 2022
Gary Cantwell still remembers exactly where he was on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve in 2012: he was a patient in Centra Lynchburg General Hospital for that entire time.
Foundation story

Grateful Patient Giving : Kim Miller

November 2, 2022
Kim Miller was accustomed to seeing her father, Billy, on a daily basis. After Kim’s mother died in 2004, Billy moved from Roanoke to Forest to be closer to Kim, her husband and their daughter.
Press release

Centra and Lifepoint Rehabilitation Plan New Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility

November 2, 2022
Centra has announced it is partnering with Lifepoint Rehabilitation, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, to joint venture a new rehabilitation facility to serve the needs of the greater Lynchburg
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A checkup and storytime

November 1, 2022
Joining well child visits at the Centra Medial Group Village this summer: “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” Not to mention dinosaurs, tadpoles and other fun characters.