Sutter Health Ranked the National Not-for-Profit Leader

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 27, 2001 - Sutter Health was ranked as the nation's largest not-for-profit health care system (measured by staffed acute care beds) by Modern Healthcare, a leading industry trade journal. Among America's health care systems with the highest net patient revenue, Sutter Health ranked 12th. Sutter came in at number 13 among systems operating psychiatric hospitals. Modern Healthcare announced its annual system survey rankings in the June 4 issue. More than 225 health care systems responded to the survey.

One of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of community-based health care services, Sutter Health serves more than twenty Northern California counties, from the Oregon border to the San Joaquin Valley, and from the Pacific coast to the Sierra foothills.

Sutter medical centers care for more inpatients than any other network in Northern California, and are the regional leaders in infant deliveries, neonatology, orthopedics, pediatrics and cancer care services. Sutter Health has care centers in more than 100 Northern California cities and towns; more than two dozen acute care hospitals; physician training programs, medical research facilities, region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks; and long term care centers. Sutter's hospitals and care centers have relationships with approximately 5,000 physicians and employ more than 30,000 people.