In Recognition of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento on the Completion of the Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center

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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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