Sutter Health has been recognized as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces 2025 by Newsweek, a testament to the organization’s dedication to employee well-being and cultivating a supportive, engaging workplace culture. Known for its long-standing commitment to delivering high-quality, compassionate care, this honor underscores Sutter’s equally strong focus on caring for its team members.
Hooray! Becker’s Names Sutter a ‘Top Place to Work in Healthcare’🎉🎉🎉 Sutter Health has been named one of Becker’s “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare” for 2025! This recognition reflects our ongoing commitment to creating an inclusive, supportive environment where our people can grow, thrive, and make a difference. Across Sutter Health, we’re committed to offering a workplace where more than 60,000 employees, physicians, and clinicians can pursue meaningful careers that make a difference in people’s lives. • We have a purpose-driven ONE Sutter culture grounded in our mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. • We live and lead by our values to create a safe and optimal work environment that supports excellence and collaboration. Whether it’s through effective leadership, great teamwork, curiosity or innovation, we ensure our people have a safe and positive work environment so they can succeed. • Our commitment extends to comprehensive and meaningful total rewards and supporting your physical, emotional, financial and social well-being. When our people thrive, our patients do, too. • We prioritize growth and development opportunities at every level—through robust learning and training, career pathways and leadership programs. As a result, team members can continuously build skills and realize their personal and professional aspirations.
This National Nurses Week, Sutter Health proudly celebrates the compassion, expertise, and dedication of its nursing teams—honoring nurses as the heart of patient care. We’re especially proud to recognize our 2025 Nurses of the Year: Sunny Freier, Tinsley West, Dan Deason, and Molly Welker. Each has demonstrated extraordinary commitment—whether improving emergency department processes, elevating critical care outcomes, guiding patients through vulnerable moments, or leading with purpose and innovation. Their stories reflect the very best of Sutter’s nursing philosophy, centered on clinical excellence, collaboration, and compassion for patients and communities alike.
Sutter's Forbes Norris team rolls deep for ALS cure! As one of the nation’s leading ALS research centers, Sutter's Forbes Norris MDA/ALS Research and Treatment Center continues to advance groundbreaking clinical trials that bring promising therapies from the lab to patients faster. It was a beautiful day in Golden Gate Park as members from Sutter’s Forbes Norris Center in San Francisco proudly joined – and helped sponsor – the Jim Tracy 5K Walk & Roll to Cure ALS. The team walked and rallied to support those living with ALS, raising $6,828 to fuel research, high-quality care, and advocacy. Sutter Health is honored to stand with the ALS community and help accelerate the search for a cure. http://bit.ly/42ZYVOl #Neurosciences #EndALS #TeamForbesNorris #SutterHealth
Sixteen Sutter hospitals earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit focused on patient safety. This recognition is awarded to hospitals for their exceptional performance in patient safety and quality of care.
“We are creating a comprehensive healthcare destination–ensuring residents can access advanced specialty services right in their community,” said Rachael McKinney, Sutter Health’s Greater Sacramento Division president. “This is just the latest example of Sutter Health’s commitment to meeting the growing healthcare needs of this region and advancing our bold vision in the Greater Sacramento Division to serve 1 million patients across the greater Sacramento region by 2030.”
U.S. News & World Report has recognized 10 Sutter ambulatory surgery centers on its 2025 list of Top Performing ASCs. The publication evaluated over 4,300 surgery centers based on key factors such as complication rates, ER visits, unplanned hospitalizations, patient outcomes, risk adjustment, and other performance metrics.
Interview with Tara Darnell, Sutter Health VP of Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning. Have you had a career-defining moment? This is a tough one, to define “just one” moment. A few years ago, I reported to a leader who inspired me to really move my ideas into action. I had been relentlessly researching how to shift from a reactive function to a proactive and strategic TA function and continually stressed to him the importance of incorporating workforce planning into our model. He acknowledged the need and encouraged me to design it and propose to him and the leadership team. At the time I didn’t realize that something that was “just my idea” could come to fruition with the sponsorship and advocacy from the right leaders. This was a defining moment for me because it was the beginning of the shift of all the great momentum we’ve seen over the last couple of years. Our structure is now the “gold standard” in the industry! What messages do you tell yourself when you are facing adversity? When faced with adversity I keep my values and my why at the center of all I do. At times I’ve felt like an imposter in a room where I’m not sure I belong or presenting in an environment where I don’t think people care to hear what I have to say. Then I remember why I am here in my role at Sutter, because of my passion in caring for people with love. With that as a guiding principle, anything is possible. This Women's History Month, let's celebrate the women who paved the way.
Celebrating the Life of Elena Griffing, an Alta Bates Summit Icon Elena Griffing, Sutter Alta Bates Summit’s longest tenured employee, died on Friday, February 14 at the age of 98. Many were familiar with her, wearing her trademark pressed lab coat and heels, Elena clicked along the corridors of Sutter’s Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley for 75 years before retiring in 2021. Elena was only 20 years old when she began her life-long career at Alta Bates Hospital in 1946. Elena worked alongside the hospital’s founder, nurse Alta Alice Miner Bates, who famously stopped her in a hall one day and told Elena to stop wearing her trademark 3-inch heels because she “might fall.” That never happened and Elena continued to wear heels to work every day.
Happy Valentine’s Day from our beloved facility dogs! These fur-tastic pups bring comfort, love, and a lot of tail wags to pediatric and adult patients throughout the Sutter Health system in Northern California. The groundbreaking facility dog program began over 20 years ago and continues to make a difference daily. All trained by Canine Companions, these paws-itively amazing pups help with rehabilitation, provide emotional support, and fetch smiles in our hospitals and clinics everywhere they go. Sending warm, fuzzy Valentine’s wishes from our facility dogs to you! 🐶
