How is Sutter Health partnering with other agencies to improve quality of care?
Sutter Health has partnered with other third-party agencies to help provide a consistent way to measure health care quality. Nationally, Sutter Health is a supporter of the Healthcare Quality Alliance (HQA), a coalition of providers, consumer and employer advocate groups and government agencies, who collaborated to create the Hospital Compare website. Here in California, Sutter Health is actively involved in the California Hospitals Assessment and Reporting Task Force (CHART). It’s goal is to educate and engage members of the public about their health care choices. Sutter Health also voluntary provides data to several other respected organizations. Read more about third-party quality reporting agencies.