The nonprofit Sutter Health was created in 1996 with the merger of the Sacramento-based Sutter Health and the Bay Area-based California Healthcare System. Approximately 50,000 doctors, medical staff and volunteers comprise the community-based network of care. Services reach more than 100 Northern California communities, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley, Greater Sacramento Valley, Marin County, Sierra foothills and Santa Cruz.
The system supports more than two dozen locally run acute care hospitals along with physician organizations, medical research facilities, long-term care centers and region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks. The nonprofit is the regional leader in infant deliveries, neonatalogy, orthopedics, pediatrics and cancer care services.
The system relies on an evidence-based model of care to improve patient outcomes. Active quality improvement initiatives include projects to prevent sepsis, pressure ulcers and hospital-based infections.
Our work with Sutter Health ranges from an effort to reduce the incidence of preventable hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism at each of the six Sacramento Sutter Health hospitals to the implementation of the Transforming Nursing Practice project, a comprehensive program to implement evidence-based practices at the bedside at each of the six Sutter Health acute care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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