Better, Safer Care
Every day the Sutter Health network works to improve the health of everyone who enters our doors. We want every patient’s care – whether it takes place in one of our hospitals, a physician’s office, over the telephone or in the patient’s home – to be the absolute best.
Improving Outcomes
Sutter Health has adopted an evidence-based model of care to further improve patient outcomes. Because we treat so many patients throughout Northern California, experts within Sutter Health are able to study the effectiveness of our care, and share what works best with doctors across our network. Drawing from our own best practices and scientific proof of the most effective treatments, we're finding better ways of caring for patients. Some areas we’re focusing on include:
- Sepsis: In one example, a nearly 50 percent improvement in patient survival through improved identification and intervention of the deadly condition, sepsis. Learn more sepsis
- Infection Prevention: Significant improvement in the quality of patient care through the elimination and reduction of central line blood stream infections in the ICU. Learn about ways we're reducing central-line infections.
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention (bed sores): A 76 percent decrease in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers through an aggressive reduction strategy. Bed sores and what we're doing to prevent them.
- Management and Clinical Excellence:
Sutter Health’s unique educational program teaches professionals across the Sutter network how to work together to further improve health care quality and efficiency. News release | Audio interview clips with Dr. Ian Leverton, M.D.
Quality Awards
The Sutter Health network and our affiliates are nationally recognized leaders in health care quality. Some recognitions include:
- Number one in California for health care quality – The Lewin Group
- A Top Hospital in the Nation – The Leapfrog Group (2008)
- A Top Hospital in the Nation – The Leapfrog Group (2007)
- Sutter Health Medical Groups Among the Best in the State for Health Care Quality (2008)
- Sutter Health Medical Groups Among the Best in the State for Health Care Quality (2007)
- A “Model” in Health Care Efficiency and Consistent Care – Dartmouth Medical School's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
- Sutter Neuroscience Institute Among the Nation’s Best – U.S. News and World Report