Sutter Health news and information

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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A class-action lawsuit was filed against Sutter Health in connection with the theft of a desk top computer that held personally identifiable data of nearly 4.3 million patients (see related...
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PHOENIX—Banner Health and insurer Aetna, Hartford, Conn., will begin in January to enroll small employers into a health plan for a newly created accountable care organization.
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Sutter Health, Sacramento, Calif., named Sarah Krevans as COO with oversight of Sutter's five Northern California regions and its home health and hospice services. Krevans, 53, will begin in the position in January and currently is president of Sutter Health's Sacramento Sierra Region. The...
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