SENTARA HOSPITALS
NPI 1811957681
General Acute Care Hospital in Norfolk, VA

Q: What is Sentara Hospitals's NPI number?

The NPI number for Sentara Hospitals is 1811957681. It was assigned to this organization in the NPPES registry on March 24, 2006. The provider is doing business as Sentara Leigh Hospital.

Q: What is Sentara Hospitals's specialty?

The primary specialty registered for this NPI is General Acute Care Hospital with taxonomy code 282N00000X.

Q: What quality rating does Sentara Hospitals have?

CMS rates Sentara Leigh Hospital 4 out of 5 stars overall on Care Compare, based on measures of safety, patient experience and outcomes. The full measure detail is in the Hospital Quality Ratings section above.

Q: When was this NPI record last updated?

The NPPES record for Sentara Hospitals was last updated on December 11, 2025. NPI Profile syncs weekly with the NPPES registry data releases published by CMS. This NPI record was last updated 7 months ago. If this record has changed at CMS more recently, you can request an on-demand re-check against the live CMS registry, directly from this page.

Active since March 24, 2006

4/5

Hospital Overall Rating

830 KEMPSVILLE RD, NORFOLK, VA 23502(757) 466-6000 Get Directions Write a Review

NPPES record last updated: December 11, 2025. Verified against the NPPES registry weekly; last sync: August 02, 2026.

Record update history: Dec 11, 2025, Jan 3, 2020, Jan 17, 2017 (3 updates tracked since 2017).

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About Sentara Hospitals NPPES

Official registry information on file with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System.

SENTARA HOSPITALS (NPI 1811957681), doing business as Sentara Leigh Hospital, is a healthcare organization registered as a general acute care hospital in Norfolk, Virginia and active in the NPI registry since March 2006. The organization lists Melinda Summerlin Hancock, Cfo, as its authorized official.

NPPES Registry Identity

NPI1811957681

Entity TypeOrganization

Primary Taxonomy282N00000X

Legal Business NameSENTARA HOSPITALS

Location Address830 KEMPSVILLE RDNorfolk, VA 23502-3920

Mailing Address1300 Sentara ParkVirginia Beach, VA 23464-5884

Phone(757) 466-6000

Organization SubpartYesParent: Sentara Healthcare

Authorized OfficialMelinda Summerlin HancockCfo · (757) 455-7458

Enumeration DateMarch 24, 2006

Last NPPES UpdateDecember 11, 20253 updates tracked since enumeration

NPPES CertifiedDecember 11, 2025

✔ NPI 1811957681 is a valid, active identifier and passes the ISO check-digit test.

Specialties & Licenses

★ Primary SpecialtyGeneral Acute Care HospitalHospitals

Taxonomy Code282N00000X

License✔ Licensed in VA · H 1895

Definition

An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.

830 KEMPSVILLE RD, Norfolk, VA 23502

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Other Names 1

Doing Business AsSentara Leigh Hospital

Other Identifiers 7

Other250603VA · Healthkeepers

Other6560425VA · Aetna

Other332303VA · Mamsi

OtherLHVA · Shm Entity

Other49-0046-4VA · Chartered Medicaid

Medicaid49-0046-4VA

Other250603VA · Trigon

Accepted Insurance

The full list of accepted plans is on the Insurance tab. Issuers include WellSense Health Plan.Insurance ›

Hospital Quality Ratings CMS Care Compare

Quality and patient-experience ratings for Sentara Leigh Hospital (CMS certification number 490046), from CMS Care Compare.

Sentara Leigh Hospital

Acute Care Hospitals · Norfolk, VA

4/5 CMS Overall Rating

OwnershipVoluntary non-profit - Other

CMS Certification Number490046

Location830 Kempsville RoadNorfolk, VA 23502 · Norfolk City County · (757) 261-6700

Birthing friendly Meaningful use of EHRs

Patient Experience

HCAHPS patient survey · Jan 2023 – Dec 2023

3/5 summary rating

Nurse communication

4/5

Doctor communication

4/5

Staff responsiveness

2/5

Communication about medicines

3/5

Discharge information

3/5

Care transition

3/5

Cleanliness

3/5

Quietness

4/5

Overall hospital rating

4/5

Recommend hospital

4/5

Star ratings summarize responses from patients surveyed after discharge, collected through the CMS HCAHPS program.

Complications & Deaths 18

Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patients

3.4 No different than national

Death rate for heart attack patients

13% No different than national

Death rate for COPD patients

9.1% No different than national

Death rate for heart failure patients

11% No different than national

Death rate for pneumonia patients

19.4% No different than national

Death rate for stroke patients

14.4% No different than national

Infections 5

Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards)

2 observed cases · 9.608 predicted · 9,476 patient days

0.208 Better than the national benchmark

Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards)

4 observed cases · 11.606 predicted · 9,256 patient days

0.345 Better than the national benchmark

SSI - Colon Surgery

2 observed cases · 5.522 predicted · 202 patient days

0.362 No different than national

MRSA Bacteremia

5 observed cases · 4.172 predicted · 82,491 patient days

1.198 No different than national

Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff)

5 observed cases · 39.905 predicted · 74,353 patient days

0.125 Better than the national benchmark

Unplanned Hospital Visits 13

Hospital return days for heart attack patients

191 days per 100 discharges

Hospital return days for heart failure patients

959 more days than average per 100 discharges

Hospital return days for pneumonia patients

616 more days than average per 100 discharges

Rate of unplanned hospital visits after colonoscopy (per 1,000 colonoscopies)

973 No different than national

Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy

Cases too small to report

Rate of emergency department (ED) visits for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy

Cases too small to report

Timely & Effective Care 17

Emergency department volume

Very high

Percentage of healthcare personnel who are up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations

Hospital Harm - Severe Hypoglycemia

Healthcare workers given influenza vaccination

87%

Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit A lower number of minutes is better

179 minutes

Average (median) time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving from the visit- Psychiatric/Mental Health Patients. A lower number of minutes is better

351 minutes

Maternal Health 2

Elective Delivery

287%

Maternal Morbidity Structural Measure

Yes

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Other Providers at the Same Location NPPES 20

Providers registered at the same practice address, or within the immediate area, according to the NPPES registry.

ARUNAVA PAUL MD

Internal Medicine