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title: "Virtual Care: Sutter Health's Telehealth Expansion | Sutter Health"
description: "In response to COVID-19, Sutter Health enabled 4,700 clinicians for virtual care in just four weeks, growing video visits from 20 to 7,000 per day."
url: "https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/research-innovation/virtual-care"
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3.  Virtual Care

# Virtual Care

In response to COVID-19, Sutter Health enabled 4,700 clinicians for virtual care in just four weeks, growing video visits from 20 to 7,000 per day.

December 2, 2020 by Sutter Health

![Virtual Care](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/Vitals/research-and-innovation/Virtual-Care-projects-scaled-a5f80f4e.jpg?h=1440&iar=0&w=2560 "Virtual Care")

We believe virtual care is an integral part of healthcare delivery in our present and will continue to be in our future. In response to COVID-19, our team rapidly accelerated a two-year initiative, and within 4 weeks 4700 clinicians were enabled to provide virtual care to our patients. Our virtual visit volume grew from just 20 video visits per day to a peak of 7000 video visits per day across the Sutter Health system.

Our [partnership with Eko](https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/patients-benefit-from-sutter-and-ekos-creative-approach-to-cardiac-care/) enables our cardiologists to perform digital auscultation with patients in rural communities.

We are honored to be members of Epic’s national Telemedicine Advisory Committee.

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