Solano Regional Medical Group and Sutter Regional Medical Foundation Recognized By Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)
FAIRFIELD, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ — The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) presented top performance awards to Solano County’s Solano Regional Medical Group (SRMG), affiliated with Sutter Regional Medical Foundation (SRMF), at the IHA annual Pay for Performance (P4P) Stakeholders Meeting last week.
SRMG was honored for demonstrating top performance overall on important health care quality measures, including preventive care and chronic care management, patient satisfaction and use of information technology to support safer care.
Additionally, SRMG was the recipient of the first annual IHA “Ronald P. Bangasser, MD, Memorial Award for Quality Improvement” as the physician group that showed the most significant year-over-year improvement on P4P measures from 2005 to 2006 in the IHA’s Sacramento/North Region.
“All of us at SRMG and SRMF are completely focused on providing the highest quality care and the best patient service we possibly can for every patient, every time,” says Samuel Santoro, D.O., OB/GYN and President of SRMG. “We have the most talented and dedicated people, and the most advanced outpatient facilities and technology available for our patients and their families.”
About Integrated Healthcare Association
IHA (http://www.iha.org/) is a not-for-profit statewide collaborative leadership group of California health plans, physician groups, and health care systems — plus academic, consumer, purchaser, pharmaceutical and technology representatives — that promotes quality improvement, accountability, and affordability for the benefit of all California consumers through special projects, policy innovation, and education.
About Solano Regional Medical Group
Solano Regional Medical Group (SRMG), affiliated with Sutter Regional Medical Foundation (SRMF), is Solano County’s largest multispeciality physician practice and is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality. SRMF, a locally governed and managed affiliate of Sutter Health, offers professional, high-quality and compassionate care from care centers in Vacaville, Vallejo, Fairfield and Rio Vista, Calif.
Solano Regional Medical Group
CONTACT: Dan Snyders of Armada Medical Marketing, +1-303-623-1190,ext. 230, dan@armadamedical.com, for Solano Regional Medical Group
Web site: http://www.suttersolano.org/http://www.iha.org/