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Health Care | Biotech | Pharmaceuticals 2025: DENNIS MATHEIS
PRESIDENT AND CEO, SENTARA HEALTH, VIRGINIA BEACH
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Health Care | Biotech | Pharmaceuticals 2025: DENNIS MATHEIS
PRESIDENT AND CEO, SENTARA HEALTH, VIRGINIA BEACH
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Matheis has led Sentara Health, a not-for-profit health system with 12 hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina, since 2022, overseeing more than 34,000 workers.
Sentara broke ground in October 2024 on a $107 million, 42-bed acute care hospital in South Boston expected to open in summer 2026.
After the health system said in April it would end its degree programs at the Sentara College of Health Sciences in Chesapeake, Sentara and Virginia Wesleyan University signed a letter of intent to create the Sentara College of Health Sciences of Virginia Wesleyan University, which will launch in January 2026. In September 2024, the health system cut 200 positions, mainly due to declines in Sentara Health Plans enrollment.
Matheis previously led the Hampton Roads hospital system’s insurance brands. Before joining Sentara, he held senior roles at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri, Cigna Healthcare and Humana Health Plan.
Matheis serves as co-chair of the Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable. The University of Kentucky alumnus sits on several boards, including for cancer prevention medical diagnostics company Lucid Diagnostics.
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