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Quality

Sutter Health doctors and hospitals participate in voluntary and mandatory programs that publicly report patient satisfaction, cost, utilization and quality of care measures. These include Hospital Compare, California Healthcare Foundation, California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA), and The Leapfrog Group.

Sutter Health affiliated hospitals and medical groups, have been recognized by a number of independent health care quality organizations. For example:

  • 2009, the Lewin Group ranked Sutter Health the top health care system in California for quality.
  • 2009, SDI Health, the health care research firm formerly named Verispan, ranked Sutter Health fifth among the "Top 100" integrated health care networks in the United States.
  • 2008, The Leapfrog Group ranked two Sutter Health-affiliated hospitals to its “Top Hospitals” list.
  • 2008, the Integrated Healthcare Association recognized several Sutter Health affiliates for accomplishments in areas of clinical care including heart care, preventive care, chronic care management, pneumonia, patient satisfaction and use of information technology.
  • 2007, the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization named Sutter Health’s eICU as most innovative approach to health care delivery.

Individual performance measures for Sutter Health hospitals and affiliated medical groups are posted on the Sutter Health Web site.

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