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title: "Why Integrated Systems Were Built to Fight COVID-19 | Sutter Health"
description: "Sutter Health's chief quality officer reflects on how integrated care infrastructure helped the system respond to COVID-19 and support patients and communities."
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# Integrated Systems Uniquely Built to Fight COVID

Sutter Health's chief quality officer reflects on how integrated care infrastructure helped the system respond to COVID-19 and support patients and communities.

June 10, 2021 by Sutter Health

![Integrated Systems Uniquely Built to Fight COVID](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/Vitals/perspectives/snapshot-a2894b4b.jpg?h=382&iar=0&w=886 "Integrated Systems Uniquely Built to Fight COVID")

COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates [continue to decline](https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/06/05/covid-california-has-lowest-new-case-average-in-14-months/) across California. While the pandemic’s effects will be everlasting, this serves as an important moment while the state takes the incremental steps to reopen.

![Multi-colored illustration with data points showing successes of Sutter's response to the COVID emergency](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/Vitals/perspectives/SH-COVID-Response-Infographic-6-10-21-232x300-1bdf28fa.jpg)

Industries and services across the world gained immeasurable insights during COVID-19–and healthcare is no exception. [Integrated systems in particular](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/Vitals/perspectives/SH-COVID-Response-Infographic-6-9-21-FINAL-7fdaef53.pdf) have shown unique capabilities and resiliencies.

William Isenberg, M.D., PhD, chief quality and safety officer of Sutter Health, describes in a [first-person narrative](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/california-case-study-how-covid-19-revealed-value-isenberg-md-phd) how key learnings and existing infrastructure of his organization benefited patients and communities during an uncertain time.

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