Heather Robbins of Elizabeth City, NC, isn’t the typical member referred to the Mission: Health program for help managing their diabetes. Her type-1 diabetes was caused by complications arising last year from gall stones. In most cases, the painful condition can be simply treated by removal of the gall bladder, but in Heather’s case, she wound up in Sentara Norfolk General’s ICU for 13 days on a ventilator ...

Several years ago Sentara and Optima Health developed a wellness program for employees, called Mission: Health. Optima Health is the insurance carrier for our parent company, Sentara Healthcare. Since then we have touted its success through a public relations campaign called The Wellness Payoff. At the end of last year, it was recognized as one of three system-wide programs that tackled difficult and comple ...