We're Better Together

How our hospital and others within the not-for-profit Sutter Health network are making an impact on congestive heart failure (CHF)

• An estimated 4.8 million Americans have CHF, and each year another 400,000 are newly diagnosed.
• More than 4,000 cases of CHF are treated within our not-for-profit Sutter Health network every year.
• In the past, nearly 14 percent of those patients were readmitted within two weeks of discharge from the hospital. Today, our network has reduced the readmission rate to below 10 percent.
• Our expert physicians, registered nurses and other professionals are working with colleagues throughout Sutter Health's Northern California network to promote consistent use of the best treatments for CHF.
• Together, we're making a dramatic impact on our patients' health by focusing on education and assuring that appropriate patients receive ACE inhibitors--medicines that have been clinically proven to reduce illness and the death rate among CHF patients.

The physicians, nurses and other health professionals at Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa are proud to play an active role in Sutter Health's Congestive Heart Failure Initiative. Congestive Heart Failure affects a growing number of people each year as more people survive heart attacks, and are left with residual heart problems. In addition, new clinical evidence points to treatments that make a vast difference in outcomes, but are not widely used.