Building Upon a "Top 100" Reputation
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento

Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is embarking on a new era in its not-for-profit community based mission to deliver the very latest and highest quality health care to the greater Sacramento community. A new Women's and Children's Center, along with a comprehensive renovation of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, are the central features of a state-of-the-art medical campus. Designed to meet the growing healthcare needs of the greater Sacramento region, the medical center renovation project will require the investment of more than $456 million.

New facilities will allow Sutter to build upon its recent recognition in back-to-back years as one of America's "top 100" hospitals by bringing its medical expertise, technology, and patient-focused care into one easily accessible medical campus.


The new Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, is designed for easy access from the freeway at 29th and L Streets, and planned as a 242-bed, eight-story building. The new facility will offer both high tech and “high touch” care in a unique environment, featuring the highest level of neonatal and pediatric intensive care services, pediatric cardiac care, pediatric neurosurgery services, pediatric cancer services, and high risk and conventional maternity services. A life-saving helistop is planned atop the building adjacent to the Capitol Freeway. The helistop will be used infrequently –2-3 uses per week on average – but it is essential in treating severely injured and sick patients, mostly newborn and pediatric patients. Following a multi-year design, review and construction process, the new center is scheduled to open in late 2010. Among the leading elements of the new medical center are the following:
  • Cardiac care programs are at the center of plans for the remodeled Sutter General Hospital, as we envision housing the breadth of cardiovascular and transplant services currently offered at Sutter Memorial Hospital on one floor at the new hospital, incorporating state-of-the-art treatment technologies, improving patient accessibility and physician deployment. Sutter Heart Institute has provided comprehensive cardiac services to the greater Sacramento community since 1963, including cardiac rehabilitation, catheterization, open heart surgery and heart transplantation.
  • In addition, the Sutter General Emergency Department, just expanded in 2001, will grow again as we add a specially designed area for treating pediatric emergencies, in addition to all other emergencies.
  • A 61-bed Level III neonatal intensive care unit for critically ill and premature newborns and a 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit dedicated to the treatment of critically ill children. These specialty units will be backed by large Labor and Delivery, Maternal-Newborn and Pediatric units for healthy newborns and less critically ill children. This new facility also will provide emergency pediatric care for a 27-county region across Northern California.
  • All women's and children's services currently offered at Sutter Memorial will be moved to our new center, making it the tertiary center where patients and their families can obtain the highest level of neonatal and pediatric intensive care services, pediatric cardiac care, pediatric neurosurgery services, pediatric cancer services, and normal and high risk maternity services.

When it is completed, the 290-bed Sutter General Hospital will provide the latest treatment for adult cardiovascular, orthopedic, spine, neuroscience, cancer, transplant, medical/surgical and outpatient surgery services.

Plans for this medical complex will allow Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento -- when finally approved and constructed -- to meet Sacramento's healthcare needs at one easily accessible location. By locating all primary and specialty care services in a central location with convenient freeway access, patients and families will gain faster and easier access to needed medical services.