Sutter Health continues a long tradition of providing clinically excellent, award-winning care to communities across California, regularly earning national recognition for its training programs, services, care centers, research and advancements.

Each year, Healthgrades evaluates risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates — using a standardized method that compares hospitals based on survival and complication outcomes while accounting for patient severity — for more than 30 common conditions and procedures at approximately 4,500 hospitals nationwide to identify the top performers in key specialty areas.

Healthgrades announced its 2026 America’s Best Hospitals Awards with five Sutter hospitals making the list.

America’s 50 Best Hospitals

• Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – Summit Campus
• Sutter’s Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center

America’s 100 Best Hospitals

• Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – Alta Bates Campus

America’s 250 Best Hospitals

• Sutter’s Eden Medical Center

“These recognitions are a testament to our teams’ commitment to providing safe, quality care in the communities they serve,” said Dr. William Isenberg, chief medical and quality officer at Sutter Health. “Our teams take an immense amount of pride in caring for each patient as an individual and working together as a care team to provide the best possible outcome.”

More Than a Decade of Excellence

Sutter’s Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (13 years) and Sutter Roseville Medical Center (11 years) are proudly celebrating more than a decade on Healthgrades’ America’s 50 Best Hospitals list — a remarkable achievement that reflects the unwavering dedication and pride of their care teams.

“I am ecstatic to receive this award on behalf of our teams. Being named 50 Best for 11 years in a row is a testament to the work of everyone on this campus,” said Tammy Powers, CEO, Sutter Roseville Medical Center. “Our entire team has a sense of pride in caring for the community and that’s evidenced by how they work together to put patients first.”

Among the major awards Sutter Roseville earned in 2025 were:

• Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Awards
• “A” Grade in Leapfrog’s Spring and Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades
• American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines — Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award; Target: Stroke Elite Plus; Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
• Newsweek’s America’s Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers 2025
• U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals 2025-26

The hospital had even more to celebrate last year as they earned accreditations and/or designations in the following areas:

• The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to launch two new fellowship programs in Hematology & Medical Oncology and Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicin.
• The Pathway to Excellence with Distinction™ designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
• The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for a gastroenterology fellowship program and a new neurology residency program

Darian Harris, CEO at Mills-Peninsula, says that excellence stems from a well-established culture.

“Sustaining excellence year after year doesn’t happen by chance; it’s built by teams who define what excellence looks like and live it every day,” he said. “At Mills-Peninsula, our caregivers, physicians and teams translate compassion into measurable outcomes through collaboration, accountability and an unwavering commitment to doing what’s right for every patient. This recognition honors that culture — our culture — and reinforces our responsibility to keep raising the bar for the communities we serve.”

Among the major awards Mills-Peninsula earned in 2025 were:

• Healthgrades “Triple Crown” Award — Top 50 Hospital, Patient Safety Excellence and Patient Experience Awards
• CMS Five-Star Rating for Overall Hospital Quality
• Leapfrog “A” Grade for six straight grading periods including Spring and Fall 2025
• Cal Hospital Compare Patient Safety Honor Roll
• Leapfrog and American Diabetes Association Recognized Leader in Caring for People Living with Diabetes

Among the hospital’s accreditations and/or designations earned in 2025:

• The Joint Commission Behavioral Health Care and Human Services Accredited Program
• The Joint Commission Advanced Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement Advanced Certification
• The Joint Commission Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center Advanced Certification
• The Joint Commission Comprehensive Cardiac Center Advanced Certification

Destination 2030

Over the next decade, Sutter will make huge strides in addressing healthcare access challenges for its patients, including those in communities impacted by complex social drivers of health. Sutter is rapidly expanding capacity, opening dozens of new care centers in the Bay Area and Valley, including a new hospital in Santa Clara, and exploring innovative ways to help its patients get and stay well. In 2025, Sutter cut the ribbon at 31 new sites and broke ground for construction at 15 more.

Sutter is expanding and better connecting services like cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedic and sports medicine, and neuroscience plus focusing new efforts in urgent care, diagnostic imaging, behavioral health, advanced organ therapies, women’s health and pediatrics. Patients will seamlessly experience accessible, highly coordinated specialty care — every time.