15 Sutter Hospital Campuses Earn High Marks From CMS for Safe, Equitable Care

When choosing from among hundreds of healthcare options, today's consumers comb through reviews to find hospitals with repeated high rankings from reputable sources. Even one star more can tip the balance toward a particular facility.

With a focus on quality, safety and the consumer experience, Sutter Health is relentlessly focused on improving care, and regularly earns top scores in public rankings along the way.

In this year's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rankings, an impressive seven Sutter hospital campuses earned five stars - the highest possible level - for overall hospital quality. Eight more sites in Sutter's not-for-profit integrated system earned four stars. Nationwide the average score among all rated hospitals is three stars.

CMS reviews hospitals for nonemergency hospital care, such as scheduled surgeries and procedures. More stars mean better performance on standard quality measures, including readmission rates, safety and patient experience.

Krista Lopes, Sutter Health's vice president for quality and patient safety, attributes Sutter's impressive results in part to "everyone really collaborating and having a relentless focus on safety."

Sutter Health chief medical & quality officer, Dr. William Isenberg adds that "awards from unbiased industry experts like this speak volumes about the commitment, dedication and skill of our physicians, clinicians and care teams; this is recognition of hard work by many."

Only 8.2% of the hospitals evaluated across the nation received five stars. This year, Sutter's five-star hospitals include:

• Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
• Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center - Mission Bernal Campus
• Sutter Davis Hospital
• Sutter Lakeside Hospital
• Sutter's Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
• Sutter's Novato Community Hospital
• Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital

Only 16.4% of the hospitals evaluated across the nation received a four-star rating. Sutter's four-star hospitals in 2024 include:

• Sutter's Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Campus
• Sutter's Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit Campus
• Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center - Davies Campus
• Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center - Van Ness Campus
• Sutter's Eden Medical Center
• Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
• Sutter Solano Medical Center
• Sutter Tracy Community Hospital

For Lopes, resting on these accomplishments isn't an option. "We're always moving and tackling new things, whether that's readmission reduction or closing gaps in equitable care," she says.

A Sutter team member for 27 years, Lopes says she's "proud to work for an organization with such a strong commitment to providing safe, high-quality, equitable care. The work we do makes a difference."

For more information on the CMS ratings or methodology, please visit Hospital Compare.