Our History
In the early 1990's North Santa Cruz County residents were served exclusively by a religious sponsored hospital. Patients, physicians and reproductive rights advocates began to look for another hospital alternative. The Santa Cruz Medical Clinic, a multispecialty medical group approached Sutter Health with an idea to build a unique hospital whereby only inpatient/outpatient and surgery /maternity services would be offered. Sutter Health, a large not for profit, non-religious northern California Health care system listened to this idea.
Using patient feedback from its many other hospitals and input from the Santa Cruz Medical Clinic physicians, a ‘patient friendly environment' with state of the art facilities and medical equipment was created for Santa Cruz county residents. A joint project of Sutter Health and Santa Cruz Medical Clinic, Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center was completed and opened to patients in March of 1996. The hospital has 30 licensed beds and is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Ground Breaking Ceremony 1993
In order to ensure this new hospital was responsive to community medical needs, a local Board of Directors was appointed and nursing and other support personnel hired and the Sutter Maternity and Surgery ‘caring culture' evolved. Since it's opening in March of 1996 Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center has received international acclaim for its facility design and innovative clinical programs. In 1996, Sutter Maternity and Surgery won a national design award from Modern Healthcare Magazine for what judges described as a "welcome departure from institutionalized-based care."
Sutter Maternity and Surgery has consistently been in the top quartile of the nation in patient satisfaction.
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