Sutter Health news and information

The first-ever penalties stemming from enforcement of the breach-notification rule in the 2009 stimulus law are drawing mixed reviews from data-privacy advocates, who say federal regulators' $1.5 million settlement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee seems unlikely to halt healthcare...
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The nation's economy is improving, but it's doing so weakly, and that continues to curb the growth in healthcare costs.
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California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford announced the formation of a collaborative relationship.
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Sutter Health, Sacramento, Calif., contributed $400 million to the company’s defined benefit pension plan, according to a news release.
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Festivus, the fictional December holiday popularized by TV's “Seinfeld,” featured an annual airing of grievances, and thousands of nurses across the country celebrated the ritual with a flurry of union activity as the year closed.
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It's apparently the season for nurses' strikes across the country.
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Three of the top six “most significant” data breaches of 2011 involved patient medical records, according to the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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Sutter Health operates two dozen hospitals in two states and finished last year with marginal revenue growth. Nonetheless, profit increased for the giant California health system.
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The California Nurses Association and National Nurses United announced a one-day strike at eight hospitals next week, including the Bay Area hospital where a patient died in September under the care of a nurse hired to replace striking union nurses.
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I had a surprise when I called the Sacramento County Clerk's office last week for a copy of the complaint in Pardieck v. Sutter Health, a class-action, medical data breach suit.
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