Historic Achievement for Sutter Health, Most “A” Grades in System’s History

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sixteen Sutter hospital campuses today received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit focused on patient safety. An additional four hospital campuses in Sutter’s not-for-profit health system earned a “B” grade for prioritizing patient safety and helping protect patients from preventable harms and errors. This recognition marks the most “A” grades Sutter has received since The Leapfrog Group began its grading system more than a decade ago. This is also the first time Sutter has achieved all “A” and “B” grades across its system.

“It is a privilege to be part of an organization like Sutter Health where the focus and priority is providing safe, high-quality, reliable and equitable care to patients every single day, from administrators to medical and frontline staff,” said William Isenberg, M.D., Sutter Health vice president and chief medical & quality officer. “Across the system, our team is committed to protecting patients with rigorous harm reduction measures and a culture of safety to improve outcomes. Insights like these from The Leapfrog Group are greatly valued when we look at our strengths in patient care and delivery of services, including seeing where we have opportunities to keep improving and innovating.”

Sutter hospital campuses earning an “A” grade include:

• Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – Summit Campus
• Sutter Amador Hospital
• Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
• Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center – Davies Campus
• Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center – Mission Bernal Campus
• Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center – Van Ness Campus
• Sutter Davis Hospital
• Sutter’s Eden Medical Center
• Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
• Sutter’s Memorial Hospital Los Banos
• Sutter’s Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
• Sutter’s Novato Community Hospital
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center
• Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital
• Sutter Solano Medical Center
• Sutter Tracy Community Hospital

Sutter hospital campuses earning a “B” grade include:

• Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center – Alta Bates Campus
• Sutter Coast Hospital
• Sutter Delta Medical Center
• Sutter’s Memorial Medical Center

The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization, assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on more than 30 national performance measures reflecting the systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm, errors, accidents, injuries and infections.

The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harm to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.

To see full grade details, visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org.