SACRAMENTO — Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento has received the Get With The Guidelines® – Heart Failure Silver Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento has reached an aggressive goal of treating heart failure patients with 85 percent compliance for one year to core standard levels of care as outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines for heart failure patients. Get With The Guidelines is a quality improvement initiative that provides hospital staff with tools that follow proven evidence-based guidelines and procedures in caring for hear

Sacramento’s “baby hospital” – Sutter Memorial Hospital in East Sacramento – is one of three birthing centers in Northern California that are piloting a national March of Dimes initiative calling for the elimination of elective premature births. The toolkit, called the Elimination of Non-medically Indicated (Elective) Deliveries Before 39 Weeks Gestational Age, provides patients educational materials focused on the adverse consequences of early elective delivery as well as tools for health-care providers and hospital staff to develop efficient and successful quality improvement programs. Traditionally, pregnancy has been thought of as a nine-month process, and many mothers erroneously ad

When Rosie Carollo was hospitalized at the Sutter Children’s Center, Sacramento due to a rare form of epilepsy at just 6 months old, she was cheered up by the toys, movies and activities in the hospital’s Child Life Program. After her passing in 2004, just shy of her second birthday, her parents, Nicole and George Carollo, were set on keeping Rosie’s memory alive by giving back to the Sutter Children’s Center located at Sutter Memorial Hospital after they provided such great care for their young daughter. “When Rosie passed away, we wanted to do something in her memory to repay the wonderful care we got and to help out other children like Rosie in the Child Life Program,” said Nicole Car