Meeting Speaker for Tuesday, August 5, 2014
How Sutter is Transforming Health Care
How does a health care system bring all prominent medical services to a single location? Create a gateway for patients and families that can help change the way patients access their providers. The Anderson Lucchetti Women’s and Children’s Center helps its users navigate to services and doctors using connectors, a spanning structure and bridges. With its opening, Sacramento will have one of the most advanced and comprehensive hospitals for the care of mothers, babies and kids in the nation.
Come learn from our very own Carrie Owen Plietz about this project, and how Sutter Health is expanding its services through exciting transformations to improve both the quality and health of our communities.
Carrie Owen Plietz is the Chief Executive Officer at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, a position she has held since 2011. That facility features more than 800 beds, 4,000 employees, and 900 medical staff who see over 90,000 emergency room visits, 5,000 births and provide nationally ranked tertiary services to our community.
Carrie received her Master’s Degree in health administration and a fellowship in health law at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was an undergraduate health administration major at James Madison University in Virginia. In addition to administration, Carrie’s expertise includes patient affordability, patient satisfaction, and even regional referral networks for transplants, including a Vietnam collaborative for liver transplants.
Carrie was most recently honored as one of Modern HealthCare’s Up and Comers 2011, Becker’s Top 25 executives under 40 for the past three years, and the 2010 Robert S. Hudgens Young Health Care Executive of the Year by the American College of Healthcare Executives. She is a member of the Greater Sacramento Area March of Dimes Board, James Madison Health Services Alumni Committee, MCV/VCU Health Administration Development Committee and a proud member of the Rotary Club of Sacramento.