Sutter Health Case Analysis
Sutter Health Case Analysis California Sutter Health is a not-for-profit health system that serves many patients and the families of over 100 Northern California cities and towns. They have grown from a small independent health care facility in Sacramento to one of the largest health care providers today. Due to the increase in costs and the inability to collect payments, there have been many financial rollercoaster rides with the budgeting and patient collections. As a result, they have been working on transforming and redesigning all of their management and account processes and approaches while striving to keep the health care consistently affordable for their patients. Sutter Health is making progress to conserve all limited resources as well as finding better and more efficient resources to serve the community and succeed financially.
Sutter Health “started out as independent health care providers, but forces like rising costs and declining payment for services have made it difficult for hospitals and physicians to continue operating on their own. Just in the last decade, more than 100 Northern California hospitals have had to close their doors, and the majority of state 's physician groups are facing significant problems as well… While Sutter Health as it is today was created through the January 1996 merger of Sacramento-based Sutter Health and Bay Area-based California Healthcare System, the foundation of Sutter Health began taking shape well over 100 years ago, as independent hospitals opened to meet the health care needs of their local communities” (sutterhealth.org)
In 2009, Sutter Health’s facilities and services were internally organized into five geographic regions which are Sutter Health Central Valley Region, Sutter Health East Bay Region, Sutter
Health Peninsula Coastal Region, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, and Sutter Health West Bay Region. They are still expanding to this day.
Although Sutter Health has been committed to keeping
Sutter Health “started out as independent health care providers, but forces like rising costs and declining payment for services have made it difficult for hospitals and physicians to continue operating on their own. Just in the last decade, more than 100 Northern California hospitals have had to close their doors, and the majority of state 's physician groups are facing significant problems as well… While Sutter Health as it is today was created through the January 1996 merger of Sacramento-based Sutter Health and Bay Area-based California Healthcare System, the foundation of Sutter Health began taking shape well over 100 years ago, as independent hospitals opened to meet the health care needs of their local communities” (sutterhealth.org)
In 2009, Sutter Health’s facilities and services were internally organized into five geographic regions which are Sutter Health Central Valley Region, Sutter Health East Bay Region, Sutter
Health Peninsula Coastal Region, Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region, and Sutter Health West Bay Region. They are still expanding to this day.
Although Sutter Health has been committed to keeping
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