13 Facts About Sutter Health

Sutter Health is a not-for-profit integrated health delivery system headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Many of the health care facilities that eventually became part of the Sutter Health network were created as charitable hospitals by community members in cities coping with growing populations, epidemics, fires, floods and earthquakes.

Sutter Health was among the first health systems in the United States to install bar code medication safety technology and an electronic intensive care unit.

In 2010, Sutter Health reorganized its hospitals and medical foundations into five regions: Central Valley, Sacramento Sierra, East Bay, West Bay, and Peninsula Coastal.

In 2016, Sutter Health became the jersey sponsor of the San Jose Earthquakes.

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In 2010, Marin General Hospital left Sutter Health to operate independently under the Marin Healthcare District.

Sutter Health affiliates have been nationally recognized for cardiac care, neonatology, transplant care, and neurosurgery.

Until the opening of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital's pediatric emergency department in 2013, Sutter Health ran the only pediatric emergency department in San Francisco.

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

In 2014, the Brookings Institution and The Atlantic wrote about Sutter Health's nationally recognized Advanced Illness Management program, which improves quality of life for patients with advanced, chronic illness, reduces unnecessary hospitalizations, and makes care more cost effective.

In 2004, Sutter Health implemented a systemwide policy for charity care and health care discounts for uninsured and underinsured patients.

In 2006 Sutter Health expanded its policy to offer automatic discounts to uninsured patients.

Under the terms of the settlement, Sutter Health was not required to admit wrongdoing, but will pay plaintiffs $575 million in damages, and has agreed to significantly change its anti-competitive business practices.