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Newsletter Apr 03, 2024
Green with Gratitude

This month, many of Centra’s facilities will be lit up green to commemorate DonateLife Month.

Newsletter Apr 03, 2024
An Advocate for Access

By Amy Johnson, NP As a child growing up on my family’s farm in Highland County, one of the more rural parts of Virginia, I had dreams of becoming a…

Centra news Mar 29, 2024
A Message to Our Community: Looking Ahead Together

Dear Community Members, There is no doubt that in any organization's history there will be moments of joy, hardship, gratitude and frustration.

Newsletter Mar 25, 2024
A compassionate renaissance man: Honoring Dr. Peter W. Houck's enduring legacy

Virginia Baptist Hospital Centennial Centra’s Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) opened in November of 1972 at Virginia Baptist Hospital, and Dr.

Houck
Foundation story Mar 18, 2024
Your generosity helped Alex and provided hope

EmPATH Our community joined together to bring a new way of caring for behavioral health patients in crisis to central Virginia and made Lynchburg part…

The Reitz family
Foundation story Mar 18, 2024
Impacting local health now and in the future

Planned Giving: Lucy and Robert Cook When the Centra Foundation partnered with a nationally recognized firm to offer confidential and complimentary…

Lucy and Robert Cook
Foundation story Mar 15, 2024
Giving the gifts of hope and healing

Meet a few donors and families who made a gift to the Greatest Need Fund last year and learn more about why they give through the Centra Foundation.

Donors
Foundation story Mar 14, 2024
You inspired Virginia

Medical Careers Camp at Centra Southside Community Hospital Your support is impacting the dreams of the next generation of Caregivers.

Caregiver Kerry Mossler and camper Virginia McWilliams
Foundation story Mar 14, 2024
You helped Derrick manage diabetes

Remote Home Monitoring Program Your gifts through the Centra Foundation to the Greatest Need Fund helped Centra launch a pilot program last year for…

Derrick Farmer
Podcast Mar 11, 2024
The preventative cancer & so much more

Meet Dr. Bikram Bal, Chief Medical Officer for Centra Medical Group and gastroenterologist, practicing at Centra for the past 12 years.

Colonoscopies