Sentara RMH Medical Center began as Rockingham Memorial Hospital in 1912. Serving a seven-county area with a population of close to 218,000, the 238-bed community hospital partnered with the Sentara Healthcare system in May of 2011.
Sentara RMH Medical Center admits more than 19,000 inpatient and observation patients, nearly 241,000 outpatients, and delivers close to 1,700 babies annually. Sentara RMH averages more than 11,500 surgical procedures annually, and the Sentara RMH Hahn Cancer Center provides more than 17,500 cancer treatments per year. The Emergency Department is one of the busiest in the state, treating more than 71,000 patients per year.
Community wellness and outreach are the primary cornerstones of the overall mission of Sentara RMH Medical Center. Below is a listing of some of the comprehensive services we offer:
- Heart and Vascular Center (including cardiothoracic surgery, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology and cardiac catheterization)
- Bariatric Surgery, including laparoscopic gastric sleeve and gastric band, and the Orbera® weight loss balloon
- Behavioral Health (individual and family therapy, addiction services, partial hospitalization program)
- Sleep Center (offering diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders)
- Family Birthplace (offering comfortable, extra-large birthing rooms, birthing classes, Doula program, low-intervention birthing options, lactation consultation)
- Hahn Cancer Center
- Hospice
- Palliative Care
- Hospitalists (providing inpatient care for patients whose primary care physicians do not admit to the hospital)
- Image Recovery Center®, restoring cancer patients' appearances
- Sentara OrthoJoint Center®
- Sentara Back & Neck Center
- Sentara Sports Medicine Center
- Therapy Services with convenient locations throughout the community
- Funkhouser Women's Center, offering 3D Mammography, Molecular Breast Imaging
- Sentara RMH Medical Group, providing primary care and specialty practices in the community