Sutter Davis Named California’s Top Small Community Hospital by Fortune

Sutter Davis Hospital was identified as one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals for 2024, according to an independent quality analysis performed by Premier Inc. for Fortune magazine. Sutter Davis was the only California facility to be named in the "Small Community Hospitals" list and only one of three hospitals in all of California to be named a Top 100 Hospital.

The list provided by PINC AI, the technology and services brand of Premier Inc. and reported by Fortune magazine. To create the list, an objective, quantitative analysis of publicly available data was conducted to identify the top hospitals in the United States.

The primary purpose of the PINC AI 100 Top Hospitals program is to inspire hospital and health system leaders to pursue higher performance and deliver added value to patients and communities. The program leverages transparent, nonbiased data to help inform strategies for sustained performance. Organizations do not apply to participate in the study, and award recipients do not pay to market their honor.

"Being named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals is a tremendous honor for Sutter Davis Hospital," said Michael Cureton, Sutter Davis Hospital CEO. "This recognition highlights our unwavering dedication of our incredible staff and providers to provide exceptional care and improve patient outcomes."

100 Top Hospitals Program Performance

This year, based on comparisons between the study's top performers and a peer group of similar hospitals, the analysis found that the top performers of the 100 Top Hospitals program delivered better outcomes while operating more efficiently and at a lower cost. Compared to peer hospitals, this year's top performers had:

• 39 percent fewer inpatient deaths than peer hospitals.
• 6 percent fewer patients with complications.
• 6 percent fewer healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
• A 21.1 percent lower inpatient expense per discharge.
• 5-day shorter average length of stay.
• Better reported patient experience scores, with a top-box Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) score of 73 percent versus 67 percent for peer hospitals.

"Hospitals and health systems continue to recognize the vital importance of performance improvement for high-quality patient care, proving value and enabling the innovations that drive healthcare forward," said Leigh Anderson, Premier's chief operating officer and the leader of PINC AI. "The transparent, non-biased and actionable data this study provides helps leaders make informed decisions for change and proves that Sutter Davis Hospital excels across a range of core performance indicators, which can directly lead to significantly higher quality patient outcomes, with fewer readmissions and complications."

About the Study

The PINC AI 100 Top Hospitals program focuses on short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals that treat a broad spectrum of patients. Researchers evaluated 2,601 of these hospitals and health systems. All research was based on the following public data sets: Medicare cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data, and data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Care Compare website. For complete methodology details, please review the study here.

Eligible hospitals are ranked for performance across 10 measures within five domains.

Final rank is determined based on performance for all individual measures. To allow for fair comparison, hospitals are stratified and then ranked within five separate peer groups with a pre-determined number of high-performing hospitals: major teaching hospitals (15 facilities), teaching hospitals (25 facilities), large community hospitals (20 facilities), medium community hospitals (20 facilities), and small community hospitals (20 facilities).