Caring for Our Community ... With You
2025 Impact Report
Building a Healthier Community, One Gift at a Time
You Are the Caring Tradition
Every dollar you donate stays local to help patients, families, caregivers, and community members. Together, we are fighting cancer, feeding hungry children and families, and creating opportunity for the caregivers who are there for us. We are tackling our community's most pressing health challenges and working toward a future where everyone has access to the care they deserve. Below are a few stories of lives you touched this year. Thanks to you, we live in a community of caring, and that knowledge alone is healing.
Celebrating 20 years of nursing excellence
Celebrating a fifth Magnet designation
"Your organization serves as a role model of elite level performance of nursing excellence." American Nurses Credentialing Center
In December 2025, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital was thrilled to receive its fifth Magnet® designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, this time with the extra recognition of Magnet with Distinction. This highest national honor distinguishes healthcare organizations that meet rigorous standards of nursing excellence and patient care. Fewer than 2% of hospitals nationwide have maintained consecutive Magnet designation for 20 years, as Sentara Martha Jefferson has done.
It truly takes a village to earn Magnet designation even once, let alone five times. This milestone accomplishment speaks to the strength of our Sentara Martha Jefferson community, both within the hospital and beyond our walls. Your generosity through the Haden Nursing Institute supports our exceptional nursing teams as they drive innovation, patient satisfaction, and superior patient outcomes.
Speeding access to life-saving care
Dan with his grandson, Aiden.
"Sentara Martha Jefferson's quick response saved my life." Dan Radcliff, Phillips Cancer Center grateful patient
Generous community members donated more than $750,000 in 2025 to make possible the replacement of a nuclear medicine camera, speeding life-saving diagnosis and treatment to more patients fighting cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses. Special thanks to the Perry Foundation for a pace-setting challenge grant of $250,000 that led the way, and to Phillips Cancer Center patient Dan Radcliff for bringing the power of sophisticated medical imaging to life by sharing his remarkable cancer journey. The Sentara Martha Jefferson team will soon have the new camera in place and ready for patients facing critical illness.
YMCA Early Learning Center at Sentara Martha Jefferson Opens
Cutting the ribbon on the new YMCA Early Learning Center at Sentara Martha Jefferson.
"Some dreams are worth waiting for." Carol Hurt, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Board Chair
Hospital leaders cut the ribbon on the beautiful new YMCA Early Learning Center at Sentara Martha Jefferson in January, realizing a dream that was 30 years in the making for our team members. We’re thrilled to partner with the Piedmont Family YMCA, a recognized local leader in early learning, to provide affordable, high-quality childcare onsite for 148 children ages infant to kindergarten. As the Virginia Chamber of Commerce has reported, inadequate childcare options take an especially heavy toll on healthcare workers, in part because of the nontraditional work schedules. Ensuring that our team is here to care for our community while their children remain close and safe means that our staff is work-ready, and their children are school-ready. Sentara staff will have priority enrollment, and tuition will be assessed on a sliding scale. To ensure that the Center is accessible and affordable to all staff, the Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation is working to establish a $5 million endowment to support the Early Learning Center in perpetuity.
