Four Sutter medical groups recently received the Top Quality Award from the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) for delivering exceptional care during the 2024 measurement year of IHA’s Align. Measure. Perform. (AMP) program.
“Delivering high-quality care is at the heart of everything we do,” said Dr. William Isenberg, chief medical and quality officer at Sutter Health. “This recognition reflects the extraordinary efforts of our physicians and care teams, who are dedicated to compassionate, patient-centered care and clinical excellence.”
As a community-based, integrated health system expanding access to distinct specialty services, Sutter Health is growing its physician workforce and scaling research-driven medical innovation to inform and elevate care for patients and communities.
By blending focuses on quality, medical education and research, Sutter Health is uniquely poised to further distinguish its brand and strengthen its reputation for nationally recognized programs of clinical excellence — positioning the organization to compete even more effectively with academic medical centers.
About the Award
The Top Quality Award, part of IHA’s statewide AMP program, recognizes provider organizations whose quality performance ranks at or above the 90th percentile nationally. Awards are based on results for care delivered to patients with commercial HMO coverage. More details regarding the awards methodology can be found here.
Top Quality Recognition
Four Sutter medical groups earned the Top Quality recognition for clinical quality:
- Sansum Medical Group Santa Barbara
- Sutter Medical Foundation – Sutter Medical Group
- Sutter Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Mills-Peninsula Division/Mills-Peninsula Medical Group
- Sutter Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group
All statewide award winners can be viewed in this news release.
About IHA’s AMP programs
IHA’s AMP programs use a fair and transparent approach to measurement and benchmarking to create a reliable assessment of performance for medical groups and IPAs across health plans. The AMP programs are recognized nationally for partnering with organizations across California and the nation to drive meaningful changes that reduce costs and improve healthcare quality and outcomes. Paired with the insights from IHA’s California Regional Health Care Cost & Quality Atlas, the AMP programs help partners reduce the reporting burden for payers and providers by using a standard measure set to deliver objective data and analysis that support performance improvement. For more information, visit iha.org.
