[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8022]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 IN RECOGNITION OF SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER, SACRAMENTO ON THE COMPLETION 
        OF THE ANDERSON LUCCHETTI WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CENTER

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                          HON. DORIS O. MATSUI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, June 1, 2015

  Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Sutter Medical 
Center, Sacramento and its employees as the Center celebrates the 
opening of the Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center. Sutter 
Medical Center, Sacramento is a community based, not-for-profit 
hospital, with the mission of enhancing the well-being of the people in 
the communities it serves through a commitment to compassion and 
excellence in health care services.
  Sutter Health does more than just deliver quality health care. Sutter 
Health serves as a major economic driver, with more than 12,000 
employees in the greater Sacramento Region. Moreover, Sutter Health 
provided more than $100 million in Community Benefit and Charity Care 
investments to the underserved in the Sacramento community in 2014 
alone.
  Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is embarking on a new era in its 
mission to deliver the latest and highest quality health care. The new 
Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center and the comprehensive 
renovation of Sutter General Hospital into the Ose Adams Medical 
Pavilion are opening in the coming weeks. It has resulted in a state-
of-the-art medical campus designed to meet the growing health care 
needs of the greater Sacramento region.
  The medical center renovation project required an investment of $750 
million and created nearly half a million square footage of new space. 
This new facility will allow Sutter Health to bring its medical 
expertise, technology and patient-focused care into one easily 
accessible campus to better serve the greater Sacramento community. By 
locating all primary and specialty care services in a central location, 
patients and families will gain faster and easier access to needed 
medical services.
  The 242-bed Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center is a 10-
story acute-care hospital, 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, high-risk and conventional maternity services. When 
the new hospital officially opens on August 8th, it will replace Sutter 
Memorial Hospital as Sacramento's ``baby hospital'' and home to the 
Sutter Children's Center.
  Additionally, Sutter General Hospital has been significantly 
renovated, transforming it into the 274-bed Ose Adams Medical Pavilion. 
These two acute-care facilities are connected seamlessly by a unique, 
three-story spanning structure across L Street that also houses 
clinical space. This effectively blends the two facilities into one 
comprehensive medical campus.
  Mr. Speaker, as Sutter Health's staff, patient, and the Sacramento 
community come together to celebrate the opening of the Anderson 
Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center, I ask all my colleagues to 
join me in congratulating Sutter Health on completion of this 
integrated medical campus and in thanking Sutter Medical Center, 
Sacramento for the quality care it provides every patient who walks 
through its doors.

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