Throughout the Sutter Health organization, our mission is to enhance the health and well being of people in the communities we serve through compassion and excellence. In all of our greater Sacramento area communities, our customers are the reason behind this mission.
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is the foundation of Sutter Health, Northern California's largest health network with 29 acute care hospitals, more than 5,000 primary care physicians and specialists, home health, occupational health, psychiatric care and more. The downtown Sacramento medical center is made up of several facilities that include Sutter General Hospital, Sutter Memorial Hospital, Sutter Oaks Midtown, and Sutter Center for Psychiatry.
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is a teaching hospital for new physicians. Learn more about our Family Medicine Residency Program.
The Sutter Center for Health Professions hosts the Sacramento City College Associate Degree Nursing Extended Campus . The campus is located at 2700 Gateway Oaks, Sacramento, CA 95833. This facility is also home to the Sutter Health University .
Mercy General Hospital has been caring for patients in the downtown Sacramento region for more than a century. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in the 1800s, Mercy's mission and values reflect the Sisters' heritage of caring to this day. Today, we are proud to continue to deliver compassionate, quality healthcare, including community education, health screenings and nationally-recognized treatment programs.
With the move on Sept. 14 to the UC Davis Medical Center's new Surgical and Emergency Services Pavilion, surgery patients gained the convenience of one-stop check-in, beautifully appointed waiting areas, a well-lighted atrium and a nearby cafeteria.
“There's a sense of openness and light throughout the building. It was definitely designed with a patient-care focus,” said Philip Schneider, director of Perioperative Services at UC Davis.
While the move does not mean more operating rooms, it does mean much larger, standard-shaped rooms that can easily accommodate all equipment required for highly complex surgeries — from bariatric to burn, and from cardiothoracic to cancer. The previous facilities represent decades of a “make it happen now” approach to growth that was necessary to accommodate increasing patient volume within existing walls. As a result, surgery facilities spanned three distinct locations in the hospital, and the rooms were often irregularly shaped or simply too small to accommodate technologies required to support certain cases. In the new surgery suites, all essential supporting services are consistent and consolidated.
“The ease of logistics in the new building offers much greater efficiencies in scheduling and overall operations,” says Schneider.
One example of those efficiencies is in Central Processing, which provides surgical teams with sterilized operating instruments. In the new Pavilion, the unit is co-located with Surgery and has elevators with direct access to operating rooms, rather than delivering instruments throughout the hospital.
Referring Physicians
At UC Davis Health System, referring physicians and their patients have access to a full array of clinical services and educational resources founded on the latest medical knowledge and leading-edge research. Comprised of the School of Medicine , its affiliated hospital and outpatient clinics , its physician practice management group , and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing , the health system offers comprehensive health care, education and research in an academic setting.
Physicians can access the vast network of UC Davis health resources through our phone-in Referral Center . The center provides information about the services available through UC Davis Medical Center , the availability of our specialists, and more information about our referral process. Our staff is here to assist you with outpatient specialty referrals and phone consultations.
PhysicianConnect is a dynamic new tool that offers secure online access to patient medical records, giving you the ability to stay informed at all times and every step of the treatment or referral process.