Sentara RMH Medical Center began as Rockingham Memorial Hospital in 1912. Serving a seven-county area with a population of close to 218,000 residents, the 238-bed community hospital partnered with the Sentara Healthcare system in May of 2011.

Sentara is a 125-year-old, not-for-profit system that operates more than 100 sites of care throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including 12 acute care hospitals: seven in Hampton Roads, one in Northern Virginia, two in the Blue Ridge region, one in southern Virginia and one in northeast North Carolina.