Our Culture
At Sentara, you belong.
Our team members are supported to live a full life and feel connected to their coworkers, managers and leaders. Sentara cares about our people, and we show it by creating a work culture where people from all backgrounds, places, lifestyles and traditions can thrive and grow. We celebrate our diversity because we know it makes us more inclusive and compassionate—and that makes us better caregivers.
Tom Perry
Registration Team Leader
Longtime ‘Sports Junkie’ From Seattle Moves to Shenandoah
Michelle Bushrow
Nurse
Career Change Leads Nurse Practitioner to Breast Cancer Advocacy Role
Michele Yacobi
Respiratory Therapists
“For respiratory therapist, pandemic challenges inspire greater compassion”
Susan Murphy
Registered Nurse
“I absolutely love caring for babies,” says Susan, an RN in the NICU at Sentara Princess Anne Hospital. “Singing and talking to them when their parents are not able to be with them or just holding them a bit extra while I chart brings me great joy!”
Emmanuel Sarkodie
Cook
“It’s nice to be a part of a team with a purpose,” he explains. “No matter what they are doing that day, everybody needs to eat. Food can be comforting and healing, and we take great pride in providing those things to our team members, patients and visitors.”
Ryan Wilson
Registered Nurse
“They always want you to advance yourself… do the best thing that you can do.”
Crystal Davis
Registered Nurse
“I’ve always wanted to be a nurse,” Crystal says. She took advantage of the Sentara Nurse Executive Scholarship to earn her BSN degree and has plans to earn her master’s degree.
