Sutter Acquires Warrack Hospital
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Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa (SMCSR) and its parent organization Sutter Health, have purchased the assets of Warrack Hospital in Santa Rosa. The hospital, now known as Sutter Warrack Hospital, provides much needed additional capacity to SMCSR, which has been operating at record levels of patient census in recent months.
Warrack was owned by Health Plan of the Redwoods (HPR) and the Pacific Foundation for Medical Care (PFMC). Under the ownership of Sutter, Warrack continues to operate as an acute care hospital, but has converted from for-profit to nonprofit status.
SMCSR officials say the acquisition of the 69-bed hospital and the projected influx of patients will likely result in the need for additional clinical staff at Sutter Warrack.
"Our plan is to make the Sutter Warrack facility a vital part of our network and a strong, quality hospital provider with a nonprofit, community-based mission" said SMCSR CEO Kent Sherwood. "Sutter Health is fully committed to the success of both hospitals and to providing comprehensive health care services for the Santa Rosa community and the broader North Bay region."
Speaking on behalf of Warrack's previous owners, Dale Iverson, former Warrack President explains, "The sale of Warrack to Sutter Health is a good affiliation and will certainly benefit the community as well as Warrack's employees and affiliated physicians. We are pleased to have worked with Sutter Health on this transaction."
Warrack Hospital has provided medical and surgical services to the Santa Rosa community since 1960.
Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa is a non-profit, public benefit corporation, and an affiliate of Sutter Health. The hospital first opened, as the county-operated Community Hospital, in Sonoma County in 1866. The current facility is licensed to operate 175 beds. It offers a complete range of ancillary services, a community level-III neonatal intensive care unit, the North Bay's only pediatric intensive care unit, 24-hour emergency services, and one of the country's leading Family Practice Residency Program's affiliated with the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
One of the nation's leading non-profit networks of community health care services, Sutter Health serves more than twenty Northern California counties, from the Oregon border to the San Joaquin Valley, and from the Pacific coast to the Sierra foothills. Sutter medical centers care for more inpatients than any other network in Northern California, and lead the market in infant deliveries, neonatology, orthopedics, pediatrics and cancer care services. Sutter Health has care centers in more than 100 Northern California cities and towns; more than two dozen acute care hospitals; physician training programs, medical research facilities, region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks; and long term care centers. Sutter's hospitals and care centers have relationships with approximately 5,000 physicians and employ more than 30,000 people.
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