The Best Medicine for Patients and Communities
In today's complex healthcare landscape, access to coordinated, innovative, and comprehensive care is the best medicine for patients and communities.
Learn how Sutter Health is working to:
Expanding access to care
Too many people encounter barriers in getting the care they need when they need it, waiting too long or traveling too far for appointments. Access to care is complicated by a growing shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers. California is a net exporter of medical school students and ranks 37th in percentage of students who stay in-state to train and practice.
Sutter Health is investing in clinician training and recruitment, advanced digital infrastructure, and state-of-the-art facilities to expand access to high-quality care across Northern and Central California.
More doctors, shorter waits
Sutter Health’s robust recruiting strategy has added 1,700+ physicians and clinicians to the system in the last two years.
More care, closer to home
We’re opening dozens of new outpatient care centers, urgent care sites, and ambulatory surgery centers.
Building the next generation of clinicians
We're growing our accredited Graduate Medical Education programs, putting us on track to train 575 physicians across 39 programs by the end of 2027.
New options for mental healthcare
New partnerships and expanded services are making it easier to access behavioral health and addiction care services across our footprint.
11.4 million Californians live in areas with primary care shortages
Advancing innovative solutions to serve patients and care teams
The healthcare landscape has evolved significantly, and health systems must embrace innovative solutions to produce the best experience and outcomes possible for patients and make healthcare easier to deliver.
At Sutter, our nationally recognized quality is bolstered by robust investments in clinical advancements, research and technology, so that vital advanced services and treatment models are more accessible and more efficiently delivered by physicians and care teams.
CEO, Warner Thomas and Sutter leadership at the San Francisco Innovation Center opening
Working to close healthcare gaps
For not-for-profit health systems like Sutter, our mission to heal extends beyond the walls of our care centers. We work side by side with community partners to close healthcare gaps and address factors that have a direct impact on individual health, because we know when people are healthy, families, neighborhoods and communities can flourish.
Sutter strategically invests in and works with organizations that improve health and overall well-being in local communities to address unmet needs with increased access to care and essential services.
Community health in action
Safeguarding the future of not-for-profit healthcare
As a critical part of the community safety net, not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare delivery systems must be sustainable and dependable now and in the future. As part of our mission, we do everything possible to ensure patients and communities receive the care they need, when they need it. However, mounting cost shifts and pressures make it increasingly challenging to fulfill our mission of investing in community health, filling healthcare gaps and increasing access to care.
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