Talk:Sutter Health

Source

Parking this here: Catherine Ho (March 30, 2018). "California attorney general sues Sutter Health, alleging unlawful price rises". San Francisco Chronicle. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:08, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

@Yngvadottir: why not just add to the article? Anyhow, I did :) II | (t - c) 18:48, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Haven't looked, but thanks :-) So far as I can recall, I wasn't sure how to integrate it fairly and neutrally into the article. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:22, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Quality ratings by Leapfrog

In the quality section, it mentions that they've received top scores from LeapFrog - but if you look at the LeapFrog pages of California Pacific Medical Center as of 2018, many of them show a grade of C - e.g. HospitalSafetyGrade.org Davies Campus and LeapFrog profile page LeapFrog profile page Davies shows a bunch of failures to respond. II | (t - c) 18:55, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

I added California_Pacific_Medical_Center#Quality showing the latest quality scores there.

Request for edit: Add 2021 Medicare Advantage False Claims Act Settlement

Hello editors,

I work with Keller Grover LLP’s marketing team and am submitting this request on their behalf to help ensure the Sutter Health article remains accurate and complete. To comply with Wikipedia’s conflict-of-interest (COI) and paid editing guidelines, I am not making the edit directly but instead posting it here for review by independent editors.

Currently, the “Legal actions” section omits a major federal case — a 2021 False Claims Act (FCA) settlement related to Medicare Advantage billing practices. This case is distinct from the antitrust settlements already listed and is a matter of public record.

Proposed addition (for “Legal actions” section)

In 2021, Sutter Health agreed to pay $90 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Act alleging that it submitted unsupported diagnosis codes to inflate Medicare Advantage payments. The case, filed by former employee Kathy Ormsby, led to a Corporate Integrity Agreement requiring federal oversight to ensure future compliance with Medicare regulations.

Why this edit improves the article

- The page currently documents charity care and antitrust lawsuits but omits this significant False Claims Act settlement. - The addition improves completeness and accuracy regarding Sutter Health’s legal history. - Both sources are publicly verifiable and meet Wikipedia’s sourcing standards.

Thank you for reviewing this request and helping ensure the article remains accurate and balanced. Please let me know if any adjustments to style or sourcing would make this fit better within Wikipedia’s standards.

Pushfire (talk) 15:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Pushfire (talk) 15:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for that clear request. The second link 404's but I think this is the one: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/sutter-health-and-affiliates-pay-90-million-settle-false-claims-act-allegations-mischarging. I'e made the edit (well, part of it). Joe (talk) 13:49, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Request for edits to Hospitals and medical groups, Past and future changes

In 2025, Sutter Health announced plans for a multibillion‑dollar flagship medical center in Santa Clara, California. This project also highlighted expected employment and economic impacts in the region.

In 2025, Sutter Health announced additional investment in San Francisco, including plans for a neuroscience complex. StarS2026 (talk) 16:42, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

StarS2026 (talk) 18:22, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done See my edit here with some wording modifications. In future edit requests, please use citation templates for your references such as {{cite news}}, which include information such as author, title and access date. Spencer^T•C 05:22, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: hospital count and service area (infobox + lead)

Requested change 1 (infobox + lead + "Hospitals and medical groups" section): The article currently gives three different hospital counts — infobox and lead say 25, the "Hospitals and medical groups" section says 27. Please change all three to a single, consistently sourced figure: 24 acute care hospitals, per the California Attorney General's settlement releases.

• Infobox "Number of locations": change "25 acute care hospitals" to "24 acute care hospitals"
• Lead sentence: change "operates 25 acute care hospitals" to "operates 24 acute care hospitals"
• "Hospitals and medical groups" section: change "consists of 27 acute care hospitals" to "consists of 24 acute care hospitals"

Source: California Attorney General, settlement releases of 12/20/2019 and 08/27/2021 (press release: "Attorney General Bonta Announces Final Approval of $575 Million Settlement"): "The Sutter network consists of some 24 acute care hospitals, 36 ambulatory surgery centers, and 16 cardiac and cancer centers."

Requested change 2 (infobox "Area served"): Change "California" to "Northern California", matching independent sourcing and the article's own lead sentence.

Source: California Attorney General (08/27/2021): "Sutter is the largest hospital system in Northern California." Also KFF Health News (04/01/2018 and 11/17/2017), same wording.

Flagging, no change proposed yet: The infobox "Number of employees" (57,000) and the lead's "Central California" service-area claim both currently lack an independent citation. I have not found independent sourcing for either and am not proposing a replacement number or wording; happy to act on one if a reviewer or a Sutter source can supply it.

Disclosure: I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of client Sutter Health. Standing disclosure at User:Phase2-Wiki-Editor. Phase2-Wiki-Editor (talk) 00:49, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: Alta Bates replacement campus opening date

Requested change ("Past and future changes" section): The article's own cited source for this sentence gives a different date than the article text does. Please correct the date to match the source already in the article.

Current text: "In 2025, Sutter announced it would replace Alta Bates with a new campus set to open in Emeryville in 2030."

Suggested text: "In 2025, Sutter announced it would replace Alta Bates, which is set to close by 2030, with a new campus in Emeryville slated to fully open by 2033."

Source (already cited as reference 17 in the article): Olivia Hebert, "Billion-dollar Emeryville hospital set to replace Alta Bates as emergency center," SFGate, February 21, 2025.

I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of Sutter Health, per my disclosures on this talk page and my user page. Phase2-Wiki-Editor (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: add city to hospital list entries missing one

Requested change ("Hospitals and medical groups" section, hospital list): Two entries in the hospital list have no city listed, unlike the other entries in the list. Please add the city in parentheses, matching the existing format.

Current text:

• "Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital"
• "Anderson Lucchetti Women's & Children's Center"

Suggested text:

• "Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital (Auburn)"
• "Anderson Lucchetti Women's & Children's Center (Sacramento)"

This is a formatting consistency fix; no other facts in the list are affected. Auburn is Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital's own city (already in its name). Anderson Lucchetti Women's & Children's Center is part of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, at 2825 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA — confirmed via Sutter Health's own facility listing.

I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of Sutter Health, per my disclosures on this talk page and my user page. Phase2-Wiki-Editor (talk) 01:08, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: sources for two [citation needed] passages (Origins, Quality)

Requested change 1 ("Origins" section): The following passage is tagged [citation needed]: "In response to the 1918 flu pandemic, community leaders constructed the first Sutter Hospital in the vicinity of the fort, replacing an old adobe house that had previously served as a makeshift hospital. Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento occupies this site today." Please add this source, which confirms the hospital opened in 1923 in a building across the street from Sutter's Fort, formed in response to the 1918 flu pandemic.

Source: "Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento celebrates its 100-year anniversary," CBS Sacramento, October 13, 2023.

Requested change 2 ("Quality" section): The following passage is tagged [citation needed]: "2016, Truven Health Analytics named Sutter Health among the top-performing health systems in the country in its 15 Top Health Systems study." Please add this source, which confirms Sutter Health and its Valley Area were named among Truven's 15 Top Health Systems for 2016.

Source: "Truven Health Analytics Identifies 15 Top Health Systems Based on Clinical, Administrative Performance," Healthcare Innovation, 2016.

Not proposing changes to the two remaining [citation needed] tags in this article (the Notable-services clinical list, and the Quality section's reporting-programs paragraph) — no independent published source has been found for either, so no request is being filed for them.

I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of Sutter Health, per my disclosures on this talk page and my user page. Phase2-Wiki-Editor (talk) 01:11, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: expand Santa Clara and neuroscience complex passages ("21st century" section)

Requested change ("21st century" section): Two facility announcements are each covered in a single brief sentence. Both already cite a source that contains considerably more detail. Please expand using the same sources already cited.

Current text: "In June 2025, the system began construction on a neuroscience facility in San Francisco,[12] and later that year, in November, the system announced plans to build a medical center including a 272-bed hospital in Santa Clara, [13]"

Suggested text: "In June 2025, the system began construction on a $442 million neuroscience care complex at its Mission Bernal campus in San Francisco, a 129,000-square-foot, five-story facility expected to open in 2028.[12] Later that year, in November, the system announced a $2.8 billion medical center in Santa Clara — its largest investment to date — including a 272-bed flagship hospital and two ambulatory campuses totaling over 1 million square feet, expected to be fully open by 2031.[13] The Santa Clara project is projected to create more than 5,000 jobs, including over 3,000 direct Sutter positions, with a projected regional economic impact of $3.3 billion.[14]"

Sources: [12] and [13] are the article's own existing citations (SF Examiner and KQED, respectively) — no change to those. [14] is a new citation for the jobs/economic-impact figures:

"Sutter Health Announces Plans for New Destination Medical Center in Santa Clara to Expand Access to Care in Silicon Valley," The Mercury News, November 17, 2025.

I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of Sutter Health, per my disclosures on this talk page and my user page. Phase2-Wiki-Editor (talk) 01:21, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: add Arden Care Center and Folsom Care Complex (2025 facility expansions)

Requested addition ("Hospitals and medical groups" / "Past and future changes" section): Two additional 2025 Sutter facility investments are not yet mentioned in the article.

"In December 2025, Sutter Health opened the Arden Care Center, a $76 million, three-story, 70,000-square-foot facility at 1651 Exposition Boulevard in Sacramento, across from Cal Expo. The center offers urgent and primary care along with imaging and specialty services including dermatology, endocrinology, and rheumatology."

"In June 2025, Sutter Health broke ground on the Folsom Care Complex, a $145 million, three-story, 106,500-square-foot facility at East Bidwell Street and Iron Point Road in Folsom, developed in partnership with Elliott Homes. The complex is expected to open in fall 2027 and will include a Sutter Cancer Center offering infusion and radiation therapy, a same-day outpatient surgery center, a full-service urgent care center with in-house lab and imaging, and more than two dozen medical specialists."

Sources: ABC10, "Sutter Health spends $76M on new Sacramento center expected to see patients late 2025"; ABC10, "Folsom: Sutter Health breaks ground on complex set to open 2027."

I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of Sutter Health, per my disclosures on this talk page and my user page. Phase2-Wiki-Editor (talk) 01:58, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Edit request: settlement outcomes in "Legal actions" (denials of liability, class description)

Requested changes ("Legal actions" section): The section describes five settlements but omits, in each case, that Sutter did not admit liability — a fact carried by the sources already cited. One passage also misdescribes the settlement class. Four changes:

1. The 2012 antitrust class action (2025 settlement). Replace:

"In 2025, Sutter Health agreed to pay $228.5 million to settle the class-action lawsuit, with approximately 3 million people being eligible for payment from the settlement fund."

with:

"The parties settled in 2025, with Sutter Health agreeing to pay $228.5 million. The class comprised more than 3 million individuals and businesses. Sutter Health denied any wrongdoing, and the court did not rule on the merits."

Sources: the court-approved settlement website for Sidibe v. Sutter Health states "Sutter Health denies any wrongdoing. The Court didn't decide who was right," and that "The Class includes both individuals and businesses" (https://www.sutterhealthpremiumlawsuit.com/). STAT News (April 25, 2025) describes "more than 3 million individuals and businesses" (https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/sutter-health-settles-antitrust-case-for-nearly-230-million/). The existing San Francisco Chronicle citation is retained.

2. The UFCW/Attorney General settlement (2019). Replace:

"The Attorney General and UFCW ultimately settled their combined cases out of court in December 2019. Under the terms of the settlement, Sutter was not required to admit wrongdoing, but will pay plaintiffs $575 million in damages, and has agreed to significantly change its anti-competitive business practices."

with:

"Sutter Health, the Attorney General and UFCW agreed to settle the combined cases out of court in December 2019. Sutter did not admit wrongdoing and denied the allegations, but agreed to pay the plaintiffs and class $575 million and to change a number of business practices, including the all-or-nothing contracting and bundling arrangements the Attorney General alleged were anticompetitive."

Sources: the existing Attorney General citation lists the required changes, among them to "stop all-or-nothing contracting deals" and "cease anticompetitive bundling of services and products," and describes the payment as compensating "employers, unions, and others covered under the class action." Capital Public Radio (December 20, 2019) reports that Sutter "admits no wrongdoing" (https://www.capradio.org/articles/2019/12/20/sutter-health-settles-575-million-california-antitrust-suit-agrees-to-change-practices/). The existing New York Times citation is retained.

Note on the present wording: "significantly change its anti-competitive business practices" states in Wikipedia's voice that the practices were anticompetitive, which no court found — the case settled. The replacement attributes that characterisation to the Attorney General, which is what the cited source supports, and keeps the specific practices named in that source.

3. The 2021 False Claims Act settlement. Append to the existing sentence:

"Sutter Health did not admit liability."

Source: Healthcare Dive (September 2021) reports the settlement was reached without an admission of liability (https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/sutter-to-pay-90m-in-largest-false-claims-act-settlement-against-health-sy/605814/). The existing Department of Justice citation is retained.

4. The 2025 privacy settlement. Append to the existing paragraph:

"Sutter Health denied the claims and any wrongdoing or liability, and the settlement included no admission of liability."

Source: the settlement agreement already cited in this article states "Sutter Health denies the claims and any wrongdoing or liability" and "The settlement does NOT mean that Sutter Health did anything wrong and there is no admission of any liability" (https://www.classaction.org/media/jane-doe-i-and-jane-doe-ii-et-al-v-sutter-health-settlement_1.pdf).

I am a paid editor for Phase2, working on behalf of Sutter Health, per my disclosures on this talk page and my user page. AldenRiver-Phase2 (talk) 01:24, 22 September 2026 (UTC)