Achievements
Sutter Medical Group

A top rated health care provider, SMG is dedicated to providing highest quality health care to its patients. SMG's recent awards include:

Sutter Health President’s Award – 2004 and 2006
2005 Sutter Health President’s Award for outstanding patient satisfaction, employee satisfaction, clinical performance, philanthropic efforts, and community benefit activities.
Top Performance Award from IHA (Integrated Healthcare Association) for California Pay for Performance Quality and Patient Satisfaction in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
First Sutter Affiliate to meet full performance goals for quality on Sutter Health Dashboard
98th percentile national ranking by Press Ganey in Patient Satisfaction
90th Percentile national ranking by AMGA for Clinician satisfaction
Sutter Health ranked #1 in Western US and 4th nationally for Best Place to Work in Health Care Information Technology 4 years in a row, by Computerworld’s annual survey.
Sutter Health ranked best health care in California and 30th nationwide for Quality and patient satisfaction by the Lewin Group, an independent healthcare policy and research firm, using CMS 2007 data.
Sutter Health in Sacramento ranked 5th nationally in SDI’s 2009 Top 100 IHN (Integrated Healthcare Network) List. The only California health system in the top 10.

Patient Assessment Survey

Recent accomplishments have included implementation of Electronic Health Record (EPIC) to facilitate prompt, accurate and system-wide care of our patients.