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The article discusses the benefits of innovative music therapy at the Sentara Healthcare's Music and Medicine facility in Norfolk, Virginia. Music therapy is an intervention used to help patients with stroke or trauma from accident to regain their power of speech. Neurologist Kamal Chemali believes that live music is superior to recorded music in alleviating disease and pain.

The article discusses the actual return on investment for electronic health records (EHRs). It uses as an example the not-for-profit healthcare organization Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia which starts with a baseline to leverage the worth of EHRs. It also discusses redesigning EHRs, and the EHRs of merging hospitals and healthcare systems. A chart showing the greatest challenge for clinical quality improvement is also presented.

The article discusses the importance of hospital room maintenance in preventing the spread of infection. Topics discussed include the significance of establishing proper health facility plans in handling patients with communicable diseases like clostridium difficile infections, and highlights the study conducted Sentara Healthcare of Norfolk, Virginia which seek to assess the practices by various hospital environmental services department when managing patients with infectious diseases

Features Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia, the topnotcher in the 2001 Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Network ratings of SMG Marketing Group in the United States. Focus of the hospital system; Criteria for good performance of integrated healthcare networks; Key to the success of Sentara at integrating.

Presents information on the electronic intensive care unit (eICU) at the Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia. Benefits of the eICU to patient care and personnel management; Features of the eICU; Information on the unit's developer VISICU.

Reports on the e-intensive care unit installed by Visicu at the Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia. Features of the system; System objectives; Benefits the system can offer.

Deals with the installation of an electronic monitoring and care system at the intensive care unit of Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia. How the system works; Goal of Sentara.

Reports that intensive care physicians at Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia were scheduled to begin monitoring patients 24 hours a day starting August 2000. Software program that will initially service intensive care beds at two Sentara locations; Number of hospitals operated by Sentara.