830 Kempsville Road, Norfolk, VA, 23502 · (757) 261-6700
Beds
274
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$760.3M
FY 2025
Net income
$234.5M
Patient care margin 22.6%
Discharges
18,205
Occupancy 89.7%
Clinicians
1,945
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $760.3M | $588.1M | 22.6% | $234.5M | 18,205 | $18.5M | 26.2% | 2.1% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 8% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 13.2% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10.2% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.6% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 16% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 13.2% | US median 11.6% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $658.3M | $546.5M | 17.0% | $148.7M | 18,005 | $18.8M | 29.1% | 1.4% |
| 2023 | $597.1M | $488.8M | 18.1% | $128.6M | 17,235 | $14.0M | 28.5% | 2.2% |
| 2022 | $511.5M | $436.3M | 14.7% | $107.0M | 16,981 | $14.1M | 30.9% | 3.3% |
| 2021 | $490.2M | $400.6M | 18.3% | $131.5M | 17,183 | $14.7M | 31.8% | 3.3% |
| 2020 | $418.1M | $329.6M | 21.2% | $91.1M | 16,641 | $16.1M | 36.2% | 2.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.1% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.8% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.1% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.5% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 6.2% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.95 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.17 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.42 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.45 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.47 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.44 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 81% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 65% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 77% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 75% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 79% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 3% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 168 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 13% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 74% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 88% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 67% | US median 74% |
| 207 |
| $49,583.55 |
| $9,682.39 |
| $12,400.10 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 121 | $135,916.04 | $29,116.67 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 115 | $52,043.05 | $10,228.10 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 110 | $33,441.37 | $6,251.39 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 102 | $39,092.76 | $7,894.97 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 100 | $42,027.71 | $10,353.45 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 377 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH MCC | 88 | $59,057.48 | $11,136.64 | $14,301.50 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 85 | $32,485.67 | $7,220.85 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 74 | $31,207.65 | $5,377.86 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 68 | $35,014.25 | $5,835.09 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 68 | $41,191.19 | $8,913.79 | $11,457.18 |
| DRG 281 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH CC | 65 | $39,762.25 | $5,577.28 | $6,648.56 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 63 | $29,750.05 | $4,738.98 | $5,985.69 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 999 | 965 | $9,681.92 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 983 | 912 | $1,851.00 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 347 | 326 | $1,105.17 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 345 | 239 | $1,579.86 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 208 | 201 | $2,219.65 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 199 | 192 | $14,329.78 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 172 | 170 | $4,930.10 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 163 | 154 | $1,065.92 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 160 | 131 | $1,315.99 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 147 | 141 | $2,193.04 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 133 | 132 | $3,881.31 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 125 | 124 | $1,906.73 | $2,141.49 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Sentara Leigh Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Norfolk, VA with 274 beds, part of Sentara Healthcare and a 3-star overall rating.
Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, VA has 274 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 247 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 18,205 inpatients that year, with 89.7% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Sentara Leigh Hospital reported net patient revenue of $760.3M and operating expenses of $588.1M, a margin on patient care of 22.6%. After other income and expenses its net income was $234.5M (28.5% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Sentara Leigh Hospital is part of Sentara Healthcare, a health system with 13 hospitals based in Virginia Beach, VA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Sentara Leigh Hospital has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
No, Sentara Leigh Hospital does not list emergency services.
1,945 Medicare clinicians list Sentara Leigh Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice.
In 2024, Sentara Leigh Hospital had 4,228 Medicare inpatient stays in 98 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 712 stays; Medicare paid $12,453.92 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $71K in payments to Sentara Leigh Hospital as a teaching hospital ($102 general and $71K for research) from 4 companies.